Nebularia coarctata (Reeve, 1844)
20.7mm
Nebularia
coarctata is moderately common on lagoon reefs
and pinnacles, usually under rocks by day or exposed in ledges at night. Depth
range is mostly from 6 to 16m.
It remembles Nebularia contracta
in color, but is proportionally much shorter for its width and the aperture
proportionally longer.
It is not certain the two empty shells figured below are both actually the
same species.
Created
2 September 2015
Updated 1 April 2020
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