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Species Page:

Northern Worm Snail

(Stimpson, 1851)

Vermicularia radicula

Class:

Gastropoda

Order:

[unassigned] Caenogastropoda

Family:

Turritellidae

Turritellidae

Image Voucher: 

ANSP 39933

Shell Information

Length (mm): 61

Dextral

Chirality:

Description:

Ecological Information

Distribution:

Depth (m):

Massachusetts to New York

5.5 to 18 meters

Diet:

Suspension feeder

Habitat:

Marine

Misc. Facts

Citations

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Vermicularia radicula (Stimpson, 1851). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160075 on 2021-06-23

Rosenberg, G. 2009. Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. [WWW database (version 4.1.1)] URL http://www.malacolog.org/

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