Onustus indicus

Onustus indicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Xenophoridae
Genus:	Onustus
Species:	O. indicus
Binomial name
	Onustus indicus; (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
	Trochus indicus Gmelin, 1791; Xenophora wagneri Philippi, 1855; Xenophorus helvaceus Philippi, 1852; Xenophora indica (Gmelin, 1791);

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]

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