Crystalline Sea Star Snail

Thyca crystallina

Seabook: Crystalline Sea Star Snail

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Description

Thyca crystallina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eulimidae. It is one of nine species within the genus Thyca, all of which are parasitic on starfish in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. This species was first described in 1846 by the American conchologist Augustus Addison Gould as Pileopsis crystalli... Read more in Seabook

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Sri Lanka Maldives Vietnam Seychelles Cambodia +62 more in Seabook

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