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Potamididae

8 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › › Potamididae

Cerithidea decollata is a mollusc that lives in western Indian Ocean mangrove forests, feeding on detritus and seagrass.

Cerithidea obtusa, the Obtuse Horn Shell or Mud Creeper, is an edible common Southeast Asian coastal sea snail growing 5-6 cm.

Pirenella cingulata is a medium-sized marine horn snail found in the Indo-Pacific that acts as an intermediate host for parasitic flatworms.

Telescopium telescopium is a large mangrove-dwelling potamidid gastropod used for biomonitoring and as food.

Cerithideopsis scalariformis, the ladder hornsnail, is an amphibious gastropod native to warm western Atlantic waters.

Cerithideopsis californica, the California horn snail, lives in Pacific coast US and Mexican salt marsh estuaries.

The giant mangrove whelk Terebralia palustris is the largest mangrove gastropod, widely distributed across Indo-West Pacific mangroves.

Terebralia sulcata is a mangrove-associated marine gastropod mollusk in Potamididae, found across the Indo-Pacific region.

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