Petaloconchus varians

Petaloconchus varians is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells.^[1]

Petaloconchus varians
Encrusted colonies
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Vermetidae
Genus:	Petaloconchus
Species:	P. varians
Binomial name
Petaloconchus varians (d’Orbigny, 1839)

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 200 mm.^[2]