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Neptunea hedychra

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Neptunea hedychra
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N. hedychra
Binomial name
Neptunea hedychra
Fraussen & Terryn, 2007[1]

Neptunea hedychra is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[2]

Description

Neptunea hedychra has a conical spiral shell. It has light colouration and can have tan bands running horizontally along the snail shell.

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