| Gibbula candei | |
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| Gibbula candei | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Subfamily: | Trochinae |
| Genus: | Gibbula |
| Species: | G. candei |
| Binomial name | |
| Gibbula candei (d'Orbigny, 1844) |
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Gibbula candei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]
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The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 20 mm. The conoidal shell is olive-yellowish with purplish spots on the top. The shell is elevated and longitudinally unequally striate. The spire is gradate. The whorls are subbicarinate, smooth and flat. The aperture is subquadrangular. The open umbilicus has an smooth texture. [2]
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean along Madeira and the Canary Islands.