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Class
Gastropoda 
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Class_C
腹足綱 
Order
Neogastropoda 
Order_C
新腹足目 
Family
Buccinidae 
Family_C
峨螺科 
Genus_C
 
Scientific Name
Babylonia areolata
Nomenclator
(Link, 1807) 
Chinese Name
象牙鳳螺  China Name
Chinese Common Name
象牙螺、鳳螺、花螺、風螺、皇螺 
Synonym
 
English Common Name
Areola Babylon 
Area
台灣、中國、阿拉伯東部
Taiwan, Eastern Arabia
Distribution
分布於溫熱帶海域、包含淺海及深海、在台灣則產於台灣西南沿海。台灣海峽、東海、南海、阿拉伯東部 (Unrecorded otherwise from eastern Arabia)
Habitat
本種棲息於淺海,且棲息在砂泥海底,食性為肉食,有時亦以腐肉為食。以往均以「鳳螺籃漁具」內置腥味物質以為誘捕。潮下帶
Eastern Arabia (Unrecorded otherwise from eastern Arabia)
Shell Character
貝殼形狀為紡錘形,螺塔高,螺層相當明顯,各螺層呈現階梯狀。殼表為黃褐色,帶有不規則的咖啡色塊斑,形狀大致為四方形,有些則為弧形;表面十分光滑。有一深的臍孔,殼口成卵形,內面為白色,口蓋為葉狀的角質構造,上有同心圓的深刻紋。
Reference
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Remark
 全世界峨螺科的鳳螺屬(Babylonia)有十七種,在臺灣海峽有六種:臺灣鳳螺Babylonia formosae (Sowerby, 1866)、波部鳳螺Babylonia formosae habei Altena et Gittenberger, 1981、象牙鳳螺Babylonia areolata (Link, 1807)、妃珍鳳螺Babylonia feicheni Shikama, 1973、霧花鳳螺Babylonia lutosa (Lamarck, 1822)和有齒鳳螺Babylonia


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