| Cataegis finkli | |
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| Shell of Cataegis finkli (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Seguenzioidea |
| Family: | Cataegidae |
| Genus: | Cataegis |
| Species: | C. finkli |
| Binomial name | |
| Cataegis finkli (Petuch, 1987) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Cataegis finkli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cataegidae. [1] [2]
Original description: "Shell very large for genus, wide, inflated, turbinate in shape; spire narrow in proportion to shell width, elevated; body whorl ornamented with 8 large, well-developed, raised cords; spire whorls ornamented with 3 cords; outer layer of shell rough-textured, light brown in color; inner layer of shell nacreous with nacre showing through thin areas on spire and early whorls; outer lip and aperture flaring; columella thickened, nacreous, partially covered with white shelly layer; interior of aperture nacreous, iridescent; columella with one small tooth." [3]
The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 37 mm.
Locus typicus: "Off Puerto Cabello, Golfo de Triste, Venezuela." [3]
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela and Colombia; in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida.
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