Onustus indicus

Onustus indicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Xenophoroidea
Family:	Xenophoridae
Genus:	Onustus
Species:	O. indicus
Binomial name
	Onustus indicus; (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
	Trochus indicus Gmelin, 1791; Xenophora wagneri Philippi, 1855; Xenophorus helvaceus Philippi, 1852;

Onustus indicus is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.[1]

Distribution

Onustus indicus is distributed in the tropical Indian Ocean (excluding Arabian Sea), the central Indo-Pacific and the westernmost Pacific (Hong Kong to southern Indonesia) as well as in northern tropical-subtropical eastern and western Australia. It can be found between 4 and 150 m.[2]

Onustus indicus (Gmelin, 1791). WoRMS (2010). Onustus indicus (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468053 on 9 July 2010 .
Kreipl, K. & Alf, A. (1999): Recent Xenophoridae. 148 pp. incl. 28 color plts. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, ISBN 3-925919-26-0.

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