| Cancellaria obesa | |
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| Cancellaria obesa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cancellarioidea |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Cancellaria |
| Species: | C. obesa |
| Binomial name | |
| Cancellaria obesa Sowerby, 1832 |
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Cancellaria obesa, common name : the obese nutmeg, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
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The size of an adult shell varies between 24 mm and 57 mm.
This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean along Baja California, Mexico, Ecuador and Galapagos.