| Trochia cingulata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
| Genus: | Trochia |
| Species: | T. cingulata |
| Binomial name | |
| Trochia cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771) |
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Trochia cingulata, common name : the girdled dogwhelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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The shell size varies between 20 mm and 45 mm
This species is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean along Namibia and the West Coast of South Africa.