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Harpa major (large harp, major harp)
Subject: Harpa major (large harp, major harp)
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Wenceslas Hollar - Harpa major Roding - large harp.jpg
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Harpa major (large harp, major harp)


Title Harpa major Roding.
Date Unknown date (author lived 1607-1677)
Artist Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677)
Dimensions 5 x 8 cm.
Classification: Sports, Natural History > Shells
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wenceslas_Hollar_-_Harpa_major_Roding.jpg

The large harp or major harp (Harpa major) is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Harpidae, the harp snails and their allies. The size of the shell varies between 6 cm and 13 cm. The large harp has a long siphon, a large mouth and a very large foot in proportion to its shell, which it uses to hunt its prey. A voracious nocturnal predator of benthic crustaceans on sandy bottoms, it can prey on crabs as large as itself. Harpa major occurs off East Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, the Mascarene Basin; off Hawaii.

Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Harpidae
Genus: Harpa
Species: Harpa major Röding, 1798
Synonyms
    Harpa conoidalis Lamarck, 1822
    Harpa kawamurai Habe, 1973
    Harpa ligata Menke, 1828
    Harpa major major Röding, 1798 · accepted, alternate representation
    Harpa ventricosa Lamarck, 1801

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