Stellaria solaris

Stellaria solaris
Five views of a shell of Stellaria solaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Xenophoroidea
Family:
Xenophoridae
Genus:
Stellaria
Species:
S. solaris
Binomial name
Stellaria solaris
(Linnaeus, 1764)
Synonyms
  • Astraea polaris Röding, 1798
  • Stellaria solaris paucispinosa Kosuge & Nomoto, 1972
  • Trochus solaris Linnaeus, 1764

Stellaria solaris, common name the sun carrier shell, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.

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