Scaphella junonia
| Scaphella junonia | |
|---|---|
| A shell of Scaphella junonia trawled by a shrimp boat off of the SW coast of Florida | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Genus: | Scaphella |
| Species: | S. junonia |
| Binomial name | |
| Scaphella junonia (Lamarck, 1804) | |
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Scaphella junonia, common names the junonia, or Juno's volute, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
This species lives in water from 29 m to 126 m depth in the tropical Western Atlantic. Because of its deepwater habitat, the shell usually only washes up onto beaches after strong storms, or hurricanes.
The species is named after the ancient Roman goddess Juno.