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Saturday, 23 September 2023

Galeodea rugosa (Linnaeus, 1771) fossils from Nicosia - Cyprus

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All about Cyprus - Όλα για την Κύπρο

Family Cassidae

Galeodea rugosa, common name : the rugose bonnet, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cassidae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails

The shell size varies between 50 mm and 140 mm. The color of the shell varies between an off white to a reddish brown.

This species is distributed in European waters along the British Isles, in the Atlantic Ocean along Spain, Portugal, the Azores and West Africa and in the Mediterranean Sea. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Photos 23/9/2023 by George Konstantinou










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