Pollia dorbignyi

Pollia dorbignyi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Description

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 20 mm. This shell is quite variable in pattern and shape. Usually it is quite elongated, with strong axial ribs. It shows a brown or yellowish background with paler nodules and one or two suprasutural white bands along the spirals. The interior is white.

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off Mauritania. It lives under rocks at low tide,

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