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Family Potamididae
Cerithidea costata (E. M. da Costa, 1778)
Costate horn snail - 15 mm


Shell with twelve rounded whorls and well-defined suture. Sculpture of low, rounded axial ribs that decrease in size on two last whorls. Outer lip flaring. Color light- to dark-brown with spiral bands of lighter color.
 
 

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