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Onustus indicus

Onustus indicus is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.

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Onustus indicus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Xenophoridae
Genus: Onustus
Species:
O. indicus
Binomial name
Onustus indicus
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms1
  • Trochus indicus Gmelin, 1791
  • Tugurium indicum (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Xenophora wagneri Philippi, 1855
  • Xenophorus helvaceus Philippi, 1852
  • Xenophora indica (Gmelin, 1791)

Onustus indicus is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.1

Distribution

Onustus indicus is distributed in the tropical Indian Ocean (excluding Arabian Sea), the central Indo-Pacific and the westernmost Pacific (Hong Kong to southern Indonesia) as well as in northern tropical-subtropical eastern and western Australia. It can be found between 4 and 150 m.2

References

References

  1. Onustus indicus (Gmelin, 1791). MolluscaBase eds. (2021). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 August 2021.
  2. Kreipl, K. & Alf, A. (1999): Recent Xenophoridae. 148 pp. incl. 28 color plts. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, ISBN 3-925919-26-0.