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Pelican'S-Foot
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Pelican'S-Foot

Aporrhais pespelecani, (Linnaeus, 1758)

marine

About Pelican'S-Foot

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". [1]

Habitat

This snail lives in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, from Norway to the Mediterranean Sea [2] and also in the Black Sea[3].

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