Curtitoma conoidea

Curtitoma conoidea
Drawing of a shell of Curtitoma conoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Curtitoma
Species: C. conoidea
Binomial name
Curtitoma conoidea
(Sars G. O., 1878)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bela conoidea Sars G. O., 1878
  • Oenopota conoidea (Sars G.O., 1878)
  • Pleurotoma conoidea Herzenstein, 1885

Curtitoma conoidea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 8.5 mm and 15 mm.

The white shell is narrow and with a long spire. It contains 7 whorls, convex, without carina. The plications are slight, somewhat sigmoid, almost obsolete on the body whorl: everywhere covered with moderately strong revolving striae. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters off arctic Norway and Russia; on the continental shelf of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea [3]

References

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