Cellana livescens

Cellana livescens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nacellidae.^[1]

Cellana livescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Patellogastropoda
Family:	Nacellidae
Genus:	Cellana
Species:	C. livescens
Binomial name
Cellana livescens (Reeve, 1865)
Synonyms[1]
Cellana cernica (H. Adams, 1869) Cellana garconi (Deshayes, 1863) Helcioniscus livescens Reeve, 1855 Hemitoma livescens (Reeve, 1855) Nacella cernica H. Adams, 1869 Patella cernica (H. Adams, 1869) Patella garconi Deshayes, 1863 Patella livescens Reeve, 1855 (original combination) Patella novemradiata Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 (invalid: junior homonym of Patella novemradiata Fischer de Waldheim, 1805)

Description

The size of the shell varies between 18 and 50 mm (0.71 and 1.97 in).

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Madagascar, Aldabra and the Mascarene Basin.

ventral view