Amathina tricarinata is a species of small sea snail, marine heterobranch gastropod mollusc or micromolluscs in the family Amathinidae.

ventral view of the shell of Amathina tricarinata

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea (as a non-indigenous species),; also off Guadeloupe, in the Red Sea and off Madagascar.

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