About this species
Colina macrostoma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cerithiidae.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Colina macrostoma”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 7 records
- February: 0 records
- March: 1 records
- April: 0 records
- May: 1 records
- June: 9 records
- July: 4 records
- August: 4 records
- September: 5 records
- October: 2 records
- November: 0 records
- December: 2 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 20–29 °C
Names and classification
Names in 1 more languages
- Japanese
- エビガイ
Other scientific names: Cerithium (Colina) costatum, Cerithium (Colina) macrostoma, Cerithium coarctatum, Cerithium costatum, Cerithium costiferum, Cerithium macrostoma, Cerithium pupaeforme, Cerithium ringens, Colina costata, Colina pupaeformis, Colina pupiformis, Colina pygmaea
Similar species
Prickly Horn SnailCerithium echinatum
Pillar CreeperCerithium columna
Coral CerithCerithium coralium
Nadelschnecke giant knobbed cerithCerithium nodulosum
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 94 open-data records from 1853 to 2012.
- Species data updated November 1, 2026.
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