Detail
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Class
Gastropoda 
 
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 
Common_C
象牙螺、鳳螺、花螺、風螺、皇螺 
Synonym
 
Common_E
Areola Babylon 
World 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)
 Eastern Arabia (Unrecorded otherwise from eastern Arabia)
Taiwan Distribution
台北縣貢寮鄉蚊子坑,台灣海峽,台灣東北角,台南縣南鯤鯓至屏東縣枋寮海域,澎湖北部海域,台中縣,高雄縣,宜蘭縣,台南市安平,屏東縣東港,東沙島,澎湖,金門金寧,金城,金沙,金湖 
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 
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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