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 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Curtitoma |
| Species: | C. conoidea
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| Binomial name | |
| Curtitoma conoidea (Sars G. O., 1878)
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Description
editThe 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
editThis species occurs in European waters off arctic Norway and Russia; on the continental shelf of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b 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" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
- 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