Stellaria solaris

Stellaria solaris
Five views of a shell of Stellaria solaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Xenophoridae
Genus: Stellaria
Species:
S. solaris
Binomial name
Stellaria solaris
(Linnaeus, 1764)
Synonyms
  • Astraea polaris Röding, 1798
  • Stellaria solaris paucispinosa Kosuge & Nomoto, 1972
  • Trochus solaris Linnaeus, 1764

Stellaria solaris, the sun carrier shell, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.