Curtitoma conoidea

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

Curtitoma conoidea
Drawing of a shell of Curtitoma conoidea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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[1]
  • Bela conoidea Sars G. O., 1878
  • Oenopota conoidea (Sars G.O., 1878)
  • Pleurotoma conoidea Herzenstein, 1885

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

  • 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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