Acanthotrophon carduus

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Acanthotrophon carduus
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A shell and operculum of Acanthotrophon carduus (Broderip, 1833), 23.1 mm in length, Dredged 240 ft. off of Medidora Island, Panama
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Acanthotrophon
Species:
A. carduus
Binomial name
Acanthotrophon carduus
(Broderip, 1833)
Synonyms [1]

Murex carduusBroderip, 1833

Acanthotrophon carduus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae in the genus Acanthotrophon, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]

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Description

The shell is dull white in color with a relatively coarse scaley sculpture consisting of rows of spines with one or two longer spines near the aperture. This taxon is placed in the Trophoninae rather than the Coraliophilidae because it has a radula. Compare with Acanthotrophon sentus. Length 25 mm, diameter 16 mm. [2]

Distribution

This species is found subtidally in deep water from Mazatlan, Mexico to Peru, occurring mostly offshore.

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References

  1. 1 2 Acanthotrophon carduus (Broderip, 1833) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.
  2. A. Myra Keen, Sea Shells of Tropical West America (Second Edition, 1971), Stanford University Press, p. 537