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Button Tops

Umbonium vestiarium (Linnaeus 1758)

Description

provided by World Register of Marine Species
Solid, rounded shells, up to 2 cm wide, similar to Oxystele (above) but more flattened and with a glossy, highly variable and colourfully patterned exterior. Habitat: eulittoral sand. Distribution: Indo-Pacific.
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WoRMS Editorial Board
bibliographic citation
Drivas, J.; Jay, M. (1987). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection Les Beautés de la Nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. ISBN 2-603-00654-1. 159 pp.
contributor
Eunice Onyango [email]