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Image of truncated mangrove snail
Unresolved name

Truncated Mangrove Snail

Cerithidea decollata (Linnaeus 1767)

Description

provided by World Register of Marine Species
Habitat: Mangrove Forests. Thick, strong, elongate shells up to 3 cm, with five whorls and about 20 axial ribs. Colour grey brown. Habitat: on the trunks of mangrove trees. Distribution: W Indian Ocean. Regional names: Kis. Nyambua. (Richmond, 1997).
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copyright
WoRMS Editorial Board
bibliographic citation
Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp.
contributor
Edward Vanden Berghe [email]