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Created 5/10/2013
Family Fasciolariidae
TROPICAL
WESTERN ATLANTIC
Pleuroploca gigantea
FLORIDA HORSE CONCH
Common partially buried in sand among seagrass or coral at any depth.
Shell has a thick brown periostracum encrusted with coralline algae. Attains
30 inches but most are less than half that size. Florida & the
Gulf of Mexico. |
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