🦋 Family

Epitoniidae

9 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › › Epitoniidae

Janthina janthina is a pelagic surface-floating neustonic snail that preys on hydrozoa across warm global seas.

Janthina globosa, the violet snail, is a neustonic purple-shelled sea snail with protandric hermaphrodite reproduction.

Janthina exigua is a 0 m depth pelagic tropical gastropod species with a maximum 15.3 mm shell length.

Janthina pallida W.Thompson, 1840 is a species with maximum 28 mm shells found at 0 m depth.

Janthina umbilicata is a species with maximum recorded shell length 9.5 mm that occurs at 0 m depth.

Epitonium humphreysii is a wentletrap with a maximum 24 mm shell length found in the western Atlantic Ocean at 0 to 95 m depth.

Epitonium jukesianum is a small parasitic wentletrap snail found in shallow Australian and New Zealand marine waters that parasitises sea anemones.

Epitonium clathrus, the common wentletrap, is a hermaphroditic sea snail found mainly in European Atlantic and adjacent seas.

Gyroscala commutata is a species with shells 9–40 mm wide found worldwide in shallow waters across multiple ocean regions.

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