Pelican's foot - Aporrhais pespelecani Linnaeus, 1758 - Fossils from Nicosia, Cyprus

Family: Aporrhaidae

Aporrhais pespelecani, common name the "pelican's foot" (or more precisely "common pelican's foot" to distinguish it from congeners), is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Aporrhaidae.

Until the early 20th century the scientific name was usually written with a hyphen and spelled "pes-pelicani"

This snail lives in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, from Norway to the Mediterranean Sea [2] and also in the Black Sea[

This species of sea snail lives below the low tide level, in the sublittoral zone, from 10 to 130 m depth, on mud or muddy sand. The empty shells do sometimes wash up on beaches however. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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by George Konstantinou

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