Spiny Slippersnail

Spiny Slippersnail
Bostrycapulus aculeatus (Gmelin, 1791)
Family Calyptraeidae

The Spiny Slippersnail is a version of slippersnail I collect. I have over 100 Spiny Slippersnail shells in my collection.

Spiny Slipper Snail


Some Spiny Slipper Snail from S. Hutchinson Island 2020
 



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Bostrycapulus aculeatus
(Gmelin, 1791)
Spiny Slipper Snail

Shell size to 23 mm, sculptured with rough, small spines arranged along ribs that radiate from apex. Apex turned to one side. Interior with white platelike septum. Color white, light-gray, brownish, or rarely greenish, sometimes with rays of lighter color.


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