Ceritoturris pupiformis

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Ceritoturris pupiformis
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Shell of Ceritoturris pupiformis (specimen at Natural History Museum, London)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Ceritoturris
Species:
C. pupiformis
Binomial name
Ceritoturris pupiformis
(E. A. Smith, 1884)
Synonyms [1]
  • Mangelia pupiformis(E. A. Smith, 1884)
  • Mangilia callistephanaMelvill, 1904
  • Pleurotoma (Drillia) pupiformisE. A. Smith, 1884 (original combination)

Ceritoturris pupiformis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae. [1]

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Description

The length of shell attains 4⅓ mm, its diameter 1⅓ mm.

The shell is oblong, narrow and almost pupiform. Its color is white and slightly red at the apex. It contains 8 whorls of which two in the protoconch. The whorls increase but slowly and the last three are of nearly the same width. They are divided at the suture by a fine keel, and a double series of largish and rather acute tubercles surround the middle. The small aperture measures about ⅓ the total length of the shell. The outer lip is thin. The siphonal canal is very short and narrow. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman and in the Persian Gulf .

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References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2015). Ceritoturris pupiformis. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=719113 on 2017-01-16
  2. ↑ Smith, E.A. (1877). "Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4 (19): 488–501.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
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