Curtitoma conoidea
Curtitoma conoidea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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| Drawing of a shell of Curtitoma conoidea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Curtitoma |
| Species: | C. conoidea |
| Binomial name | |
| Curtitoma conoidea (Sars G. O., 1878) | |
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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
- Curtitoma conoidea (Sars G. O., 1878). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.
- G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
- Konar, Brenda, and Alexandra M. Ravelo. Epibenthic Community Variability on the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Continental Shelf. Coastal Marine Institute, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska, 2013.
- Sars, G.O. (1878) Mollusca regionis arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de I Norges arktiskes region forekommende Bloddyr. Bidrag til kundskaben om Norges arktiske fauna. 1, 466 pp. Christiania
- Bogdanov I. (1990). Mollusks of Oenopotinae Subfamily (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) in the seas of the USSR. Leningrad 221 p
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
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