Gibbula spurca Top Snail

Gibbula spurca is commonly referred to as Top Snail. Difficulty in the aquarium: Cold water animal. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

17111 

AphiaID:

141797 

Scientific:

Gibbula spurca 

German:

Kreiselschnecke 

English:

Top Snail 

Category:

Snails 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Trochida (Order) > Trochidae (Family) > Gibbula (Genus) > spurca (Species) 

Initial determination:

(A. Gould, ), 1849 

Occurrence:

Endemic species, European Coasts, Madeira, North Atlantic Ocean, the Canary Islands 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

Meter 

Habitats:

Seawater, Sea water, Stony soils, Under rocks 

Size:

0" - 0.39" (0,8cm - 1,3cm) 

Temperature:

°F - 77 °F (°C - 25°C) 

Food:

Algae (Algivore), Deposit feeder 

Difficulty:

Cold water animal 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Gibbula adansonii
• Gibbula adriatica
• Gibbula albida
• Gibbula ardens
• Gibbula aurantia
• Gibbula beckeri
• Gibbula benzi
• Gibbula candei
• Gibbula capensis
• Gibbula cicer
• Gibbula cineraria
• Gibbula clandestina
• Gibbula corallioides
• Gibbula delgadensis
• Gibbula denizi
• Gibbula deversa
• Gibbula divaricata
• Gibbula drepanensis
• Gibbula eikoae
• 
  Gibbula fanulum
  Tempelchen
• Gibbula guishanensis
• Gibbula guttadauri
• Gibbula hisseyiana
• Gibbula houarti
• Gibbula joubini
• Gibbula leucophaea
• Gibbula loculosa
• 
  Gibbula magus
  Knorrige Kreiselschnecke, Zauberbuckelschnecke, Magus Gibbula
• Gibbula massieri
• Gibbula multicolor
• Gibbula nivosa
• Gibbula pennanti
• Gibbula philberti
• Gibbula racketti
• Gibbula rarilineata
• Gibbula sementis
• Gibbula senegalensis
• Gibbula spratti
• 
  Gibbula spurca
  Kreiselschnecke
• Gibbula tantilla
• Gibbula tenuilirata
• Gibbula tingitana
• Gibbula tryoni
• Gibbula tumida
• Gibbula turbinoides
• Gibbula umbilicalis
• Gibbula umbilicaris
• Gibbula vanwalleghemi
• Gibbula varia
• Gibbula verdensis
• Gibbula vimontiae
• 
  Gibbula zonata
  Kreiselschnecke
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Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2025-01-03 12:22:54 

Last edit:

2025-01-03 12:30:28 

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