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Diloma coracinum Top Snail

Diloma coracinum is commonly referred to as Top Snail. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.


Profilbild Urheber Javier Couper (Predomalpha), New Zealand

Diloma coracina.Live in rock pools at low tide. Waipu Cove.2021


Courtesy of the author Javier Couper (Predomalpha), New Zealand Photo taken by Javier Couper. Please visit www.inaturalist.org for more information.

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lexID:
14032 
AphiaID:
546860 
Scientific:
Diloma coracinum 
German:
Kreiselschnecke 
English:
Top Snail 
Category:
Ślimaki 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Trochida (Order) > Trochidae (Family) > Diloma (Genus) > coracinum (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Philippi, ), 1851 
Occurrence:
Endemic species, New Zealand 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
Meter 
Size:
0" - 0" (0,6cm - 0,9cm) 
Temperature:
55.4 °F - 69.8 °F (13°C - 21°C) 
Food:
Algae (Algivore), algae grazer, epiphytes feeder, Detritus, Herbivorous 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2022-04-28 20:14:48 

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Diloma coracinum (Philippi, 1851)

Diloma coracinum is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top snails.This is a very variable species, and the smallest Diloma occurring in New Zealand. Diloma coracinum is endemic to NewZealand. Diloma coracinum is a algae grazer and deposit feeder.

Synonymised names:
Trochocochlea excavata A. Adams & Angas, 1864
Trochus coracinus Troschel, 1851

External links

  1. New Zealand Mollusca (en). Abgerufen am 02.08.2021.
  2. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 02.08.2021.

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