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Callipara kurodai

Callipara kurodai or Kuroda's Volute is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. It was discovered in 1964 by trawling at depths of in the South China Sea. The difficulty in acquiring shell samples before the proliferation of trawling made it historically in-demand among shell collectors.

Description

The shell varies from 6 to 9 cm in length, unlike many other volutes, the outer shell surface is axially ribbed, as opposed to smooth.

Distribution

It is primarily found at deep depths in the South China Sea, off the coasts of Vietnam and China.

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