Real seashell of Black Line Smaragdia Snail - Smaragdia souverbiana specimen encased in clearlucite material. The specimen is crystal clear, transparent and indestructible. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put the seashell right at your fingertips

Anyone can safely explore the seashell from every angle.

It is clear enough for microscope observation.

Size of the shell is 1.6x1.3 cm (0.6x0.5 inch).

Size of the lucite block is 4.5x3.0x1.8 cm (1.8x1.2x0.7 inch).

Weight of the block is 20 g and 30 g with packing box.

This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.
 

It is an ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item for every body. 

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Black Line Smaragdia Snail - Smaragdia souverbiana

Order: Cycloneritida  Family: Neritidae  Genus: Smaragdia

Smaragdia souverbiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.

Smaragdia souverbiana is a small (<2mm aperture) seagrass associated Nerite. Its shell is sand to green in colour, with distinctive thin black bands with embedded clear diamonds across the whorls. It is commonly found in seagrasses, where it is believed to feed directly on seagrass cells (rather than algae epiphyte like many other seagrass associated gastropods). Feces examined from specimens collected from the intertidal zone contained both seagrass and epiphyte material.

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and the Aldabra Atoll, and in the Mediterranean Sea. It is also widely distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific, with records of its collection along the east (as far south as southern New South Wales) and west coasts for Australia, through Indonesia and Malaysia to the Philippines and New Caledonia.