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Scientific Name: Mammilla melanostoma (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonym: Polinices melanostomus (Currently unaccepted)
English Name: Blackmouth moon snail, sand snail
Local/Bangla Name: Kala pat shamuk (কালা প্যাট শামুক)
Photo: ABR Lab
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mullusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Naticidae
Description:
Color brownish body surface-white, obscurely banded with flesh-brown; columella white; umbilicus and callus dark chocolate brown. Operculum corneous and dark reddish-brown. Smooth, thick, fusiform swollen, medium sized shell. Short spire with blunt apex; whorls oblique, rudely striated and impressed with very fine spiral striae. Aperture large, oblong, semilunar; outer lip slightly expanded from the body and rounded. Umbilicus is wide and deep.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
St. Martin’s and Sonadia Islands and in some sandy beaches in the Sundarbans
Environment:
Marine
Main References:
Habib KA, Kim CG, Oh J, Neogi AK, Lee YH (2017) Aquatic Biodiversity of Sundarbans Bangladesh. Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST). 394pp.
Other References:
Antu DR, Islam TT, Ahmed MR, Ahmed S, Datta SK, Ahmed MS (2023) Diversity of Bivalves and Gastropods in Sonadia Island, Bangladesh. Bioresearch Communications-(BRC), 9(01), 1225-1236. https://doi.org/10.3329/brc.v9i1.63603
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