Image of foliate thorn purpura
Description:
Adult Ceratostoma females may produce 40 of these egg capsules yearly, each containing 30-80 eggs. Larvae metamorphose within the egg capsule and young snails emerge.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Gastropoda (snails)
- Caenogastropoda (An order of snails)
- Neogastropoda
- Muricoidea
- Muricidae (murex snails)
- Ocenebrinae
- Ceratostoma
- Ceratostoma foliatum (foliate thorn purpura)
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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