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
  1. 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.
  • 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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