Zeacolpus vittatus

Zeacolpus vittatus
Apertural view of a shell of Zeacolpus vittatus; as a juvenile this individual was subjected to a break (possibly an attempted predation) that on being repaired caused the shell spire to appear to be bent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Turritellidae
Subfamily: Turritellinae
Genus: Zeacolpus
Species: Z. vittatus
Binomial name
Zeacolpus vittatus
(Hutton, 1873)
Synonyms

Turritella vittata Hutton, 1873
Turritella carlottae Watson, 1881

Zeacolpus vittatus is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turritellidae, the tower snails.

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