Gaza compta

Gaza compta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Margaritidae
Genus: Gaza
Species: G. compta
Binomial name
Gaza compta
Simone & Cunha, 2006[1]

Gaza compta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Margaritidae.[2]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 23 mm and 28 mm. The pale beige shell has a weak spiral sculpture. But the first two whorls of the teleoconch have a purple color and they show some marked axial undulations.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Southeast Brazil at depths between 700 m and 800 m.

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