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Small Needle-whelk

Bittium reticulatum

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 272, February 201, March 315, April 495, May 713, June 778, July 833, August 716, September 526, October 392, November 214, December 168.
United States5,622
Alaska5,622
France83
Spain52
Occitanie50
Greece42
Portugal41
Italy41
Nord-Est35
Macedonia-Thrace32

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • Shell-bearingProtected by a hard shellFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumMolluscs · Mollusca
ClassGastropods · Gastropoda
FamilyCerith Snails · Cerithiidae
GenusNeedle-whelks · Bittium

Sources

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