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Monday, 7 September 2015

Potamides conicus (Blainville, 1829) - Cyprus

Family Potamididae

 Is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae
This species occurs patchily along coastal habitats in the eastern and southern Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, as well as in Libya, Sardinia and Malta. In Egypt, it is found inland in saline lakes such as Birket Gessebaya, Birket Maragi, Lake Qarun and the Bitter Lakes (Taraschewski and Paperna 1981).

.Photos Akrotiri 5/9/2015  by George Konstantinou






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