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Gibbula umbilicalis (da Costa) (Flat Or Purple Top Shell)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Gibbula umbilicalis Living animal 6 May 2008 Dorset England 5
Gibbula umbilicalis Living animal 21 March 2008 East Cornwall England 5

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Sterry, P., 2007, Purple Topshell, British Wildlife, Volume 19, no. 1: 61 (Colour photograph) Purple Topshell

Gibbula umbilicalis may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
MOLLUSCA
(slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs)
GASTROPODA
(slugs and snails)
PROSOBRANCHIA
(operculate mollusc)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Gibbula umbilicalis:

Gibbula umbilicalis may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
MOLLUSCA
(slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs)
GASTROPODA
(slugs and snails)

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