Telescopium telescopium: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Family
- Potamididae
- Genus
- Telescopium
- Species
- Telescopium telescopium
- Scientific Name
- Telescopium telescopium
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Telescopium telescopium
Telescopium telescopium, commonly known as the telescope snail, is a species of snail in the horn snail family Potamididae found in mangrove habitats in the Indo-Pacific. They are large snails that can grow up to 8 to 10 cm (3.1 to 3.9 in) in length and are easily recognizable by their cone-shaped shell.
Telescope snails are edible and are eaten in parts of Southeast Asia. They are known locally as bagongon or bagungon in the Philippines; and rodong or berongan in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.
...Telescopium telescopium in languages:
- Chinese
- 望遠鏡海蜷
- Czech
- brakičník teleskopický
- English
- Mud Creeper
- Japanese
- センニンガイ
- Russian
- Телескопий
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