Image of foliate thorn purpura
Description:
Prominent flanges serve to strengthen the shell. A 'tooth' near the aperture may be used to pry open bivalves. And the radula is used to bore through calcareous shells of prey such as barnacles and bivalve.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Gastropoda (snails)
- Caenogastropoda (An order of snails)
- Neogastropoda
- Muricoidea
- Muricidae (murex snails)
- Ocenebrinae
- Ceratostoma
- Ceratostoma foliatum (foliate thorn purpura)
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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