
Coelotrochus viridis, common name the green top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Green Top Snail being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Lithopoma americanum
- Uvanilla buschii
- Trochus intextus
- Bellastraea squamifera
- Astralium latispina
- Astralium tentoriiforme
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Trochida
- Family
- Trochidae
- Genus
- Coelotrochus
- Species
- Coelotrochus viridis
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