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Five views of a shell of Stellaria solaris | |
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Genus: | Stellaria Schmidt in Möller, 1832[1]
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Trochus solaris Linnaeus, 1764 | |
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Stellaria is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.[2]
Shells medium-sized to large (diameter of base without attachments 65–128 mm; height of shell 48–70 mm), rather depressed to moderately high-spired, widely umbilicate, with wide peripheral flange (30-40% of total diameter at base) which is simple in some species or is digitate or divided into numerous long, hollow, narrow, parallel-sided spines. Ventral side of peripheral flange non-porcellanous. Foreign objects usually small to very small covering less than 30% of dorsal surface.[3]
Species within the genus Stellaria include:[3]