Neptunea ventricosa (Gmelin, 1791)
A common benthic snail of arctic seas
Size
- High of sbell:up to 160 mm
- Diameter: up to 111 mm
Color
- Variable: white, rose, yellow-brownish
Habitat & Distribution
- Epibenthic (seabed surface)
- Eurybathic (17-320 m), mostly shelf
- Circumpolar, Pocitic boreal-arctic
Feeding
- Carnivorous
Life cycle
- Small eggs are enclosed into egg capsules
- Direct development inside egg capsules
Page Author: Damerau/Kiel
Created: Sept 30, 2010
