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Family Potamididae
Cerithidea scalariformis (Say, 1825)
Ladder horn snail - 25 mm


Shell elongate with rounded whorls. Sculpture of 20-26 axial ribs which stop abruptly at single, well-defined spiral cord below periphery of whorls. Aperture large with outer lip reflected. Color pale-brown to violaceous.
 
 

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