Struthiolaria vermis flemingi

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Struthiolaria vermis flemingi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Mesogastropoda
Family: Struthiolariidae
Genus: Struthiolaria
Species: S. vermis
Subspecies: S. vermis flemingi
Trinomial name
Struthiolaria vermis flemingi
Neef, 1970

Struthiolaria vermis flemingi, known as a kind of ostrich foot shell (as are all the members of the family), is a subspecies of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Struthiolariidae.

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[edit] Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.

[edit] Habitat

This large snail is found near low tide on muddy sand beaches, and off coastal beaches to about 55 m, where it is buried just below the surface.

[edit] Description

The shell is larger and more solid than typical Struthiolaria vermis subspecies, the body whorl is inflated, non-tuberculate, the suture is very deeply but narrowly channelled and the colour pattern is of broad ill-defined axial stripes on a creamy-white ground.

The shell height is up to 54 mm, and width up to 36 mm

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