Cleospira ochsneri

Cleospira ochsneri is a species of small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Cleospira ochsneri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Cleospira
Species:	C. ochsneri
Binomial name
Cleospira ochsneri (Hertlein & Strong, 1949)
Synonyms[1]
Cleospira bicolor (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) Crassispira ochsneri (Hertlein & Strong, 1949) Monilispira ochsneri Hertlein & Strong, 1949 Pleurotoma bicolor G. B. Sowerby I, 1834 (invalid: junior homonym of Pleurotoma bicolor Risso, 1826; Monilispira ochsneri is a replacement name)

Description

The length of the shell attains 18 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Panama to Ecuador; also off the Galapagos Islands.

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2011). Cleospira ochsneri (Hertlein & Strong, 1949). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581136 on 2012-07-08

• Hertlein, Leo George, and A. M. Strong. "Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society." XXXIV. Mollusks from the west coast of Mexico and Central America. Part III. New York Zoological Society, Zoologica 31.2 (1946): 53-76

External links

• Sowerby I, G.B. (1834 ["1833"). New species of shells collected by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1: 134-139]
• Gastropods.com: Cleospira ochsneri
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.