Tritonoharpa bayeri
Tritonoharpa bayeri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
Tritonoharpa bayeri | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Cancellariidae |
Genus: | Tritonoharpa |
Species: | T. bayeri |
Binomial name | |
Tritonoharpa bayeri (Petuch, 1987) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Colubraria bayeri Petuch, 1987 |
Description
Original description: "Shell small for genus, very thin and fragile, inflated, bullate; spire low in comparison to cogeners, shoulder and spire tabulate; 2 very thin, bladelike, low varices per whorl; 16-18 very narrow, low, axial riblets between sets of varices; axial riblets overlaid with numerous raised spiral threads; parietal shield erect, nonadherent; edge of lip thin, bladelike, crenulated; color pale tan with numerous large, scattered, amorphous reddish-brown patches; varices marked with one large medial reddish-brown checker-shaped flammule and smaller brown dashes; interior of aperture pale tan, with brown checkers of labial varix showing through."[2]
Distribution
Locus typicus: "Off Cabo La Vela, Goajira Peninsula, Colombia."[2]
References
- Tritonoharpa bayeri (Petuch, 1987). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
- Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 102. Publ: CERF