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Calpurnus verrucosus
Calpurnus verrucosus
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Latin name: Calpurnus verrucosus Common name: spotted Calpurnius - Ovulide coral leather English name: Umbilical ovula Class: Gastropoda Family: Ovulidae Dimensions: 3.5 cm Location where the photos were taken: the peninsula of Moalboal, Cebu, Philippines -- Balicasag Island, Bohol, Philippines.
This is a ovulide that feeds on the coral of the genus Sarcophyton Leather, where you live imitating perfectly the livery porous.
Easily recognizable thanks to its distinctive white coat dotted with black and form of the shell with two navels evident at both ends shaded pink. This species is fairly common locally and is located mainly in shallow water.
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