Aporrhais pesgallinae

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Aporrhais pesgallinae is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aporrhaidae, the pelican's foot snails or pelican's foot shells.[1]

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Aporrhais pesgallinae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Aporrhaidae
Genus: Aporrhais
Species:
A. pesgallinae
Binomial name
Aporrhais pesgallinae
Barnard, 1963
Synonyms

Aporrhais pes-gallinae Barnard, 1963 (hyphen not acceptable in specific epithet)

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Distribution

Found along the coast of West Africa (Senegal, Ivory Coast, Guinea) and in the South Atlantic Ocean (off Angola, Namibia).[1]

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