Photo credit: (c) H. Zell, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist
About this species
Neocollonia pilula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.SubspeciesNeocollonia pilula rosa (Pilsbry, 1904) : synonym of Planacollonista rosa (Pilsbry, 1904)
Text from the Wikipedia article “Neocollonia pilula”, 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: 2 records
- February: 0 records
- March: 4 records
- April: 1 records
- May: 0 records
- June: 0 records
- July: 0 records
- August: 10 records
- September: 0 records
- October: 1 records
- November: 0 records
- December: 0 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 18–28 °C
Names and classification
Names in 2 more languages
- Japanese
- サンショウスガイ
- Korean
- 쇄팥알고둥
Other scientific names: Bothropoma isseli, Bothropoma pilula, Bothropoma pilulum, Collonia japonica, Collonia pilula, Complicatacollonista isseli, Cynisca japonica, Leptothyra inepta, Leptothyra pilula, Liotia pilula, Monilea inepta, Monilea rotundata, Neocollonia diversicolor, Neocollonia inepta, Neocollonia isseli, Neocollonia kantori, Neocollonia splendida
Similar species
warty turbanHomalopoma verruca
Ruby-belted TurbanMicrocollonia rubricincta
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).
- 104 open-data records from 1960 to 2002.
- Species data updated November 4, 2026.
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