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Kanamarua narcissisma

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Kanamarua narcissisma is a species of marine sea snail, a type of gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Colubrariidae. It is part of the genus Kanamarua, a group of predatory or parasitic sea snails found primarily in tropical marine environments. The species was formally described in 2008 by malacologists Koen Fraussen and Denis Lamy during […]

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth, covering more than 165 million square kilometers (63 million square miles)—about one-third of the planet’s surface. It stretches from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia to the west and the Americas to