Curtitoma conoidea

Curtitoma conoidea
Drawing of a shell of Curtitoma conoidea
Scientific classification Edit this 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)
Synonyms
  • 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.

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.

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters off arctic Norway and Russia; on the continental shelf of the Alaska, Beaufort Sea.

References

  1. 1 2 Curtitoma conoidea (Sars G. O., 1878). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.
  2. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
  3. ↑ "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" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2017.