Cymatosyrinx carpenteri
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| Drawing of Cymatosyrinx carpenteri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Cymatosyrinx |
| Species: | C. carpenteri |
| Binomial name | |
| Cymatosyrinx carpenteri (Verrill & Smith, 1880) [1] | |
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Cymatosyrinx carpenteri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]
Description
The shell is scarcely shouldered, with about twelve short flexuous longitudinal ribs and no spiral sculpture. The shell is white or pale yellow, often with darker brownish yellow ribs. The shell grows to a length of 7 mm. [3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the tropical Western Atlantic Ocean.
References
- ↑ Verrill and Smith, Am. Jour. Sc., 3d ser., xx, p. 395.
- 1 2 Cymatosyrinx carpenteri (Verrill & Smith, 1880). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 October 2011.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 312; 1884 (treated as Daphnella carpenteri)
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
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