Curtitoma ovalis

Curtitoma ovalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae ^[1]
Genus:	Curtitoma
Species:	C. ovalis
Binomial name
*Curtitoma ovalis* (Friele, 1877)
Synonyms^[2]
Propebela pygmaea (A. E. Verrill, 1882)

Curtitoma ovalis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[2]

Description

This species occurs in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and along Iceland.

References

↑ Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
1 2 Curtitoma ovalis (Friele, 1877). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.

bbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp.

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