Cidarina cidaris

Cidarina cidaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Family:	Calliotropidae
Genus:	Cidarina
Species:	C. cidaris
Binomial name
Cidarina cidaris (Carpenter, 1864)
Synonyms [1]
Cidarina cidarisAdams, A., 1864 Lischkeia cidaris(Carpenter, 1864) Margarita cidarisCarpenter, 1864

Cidarina cidaris, common name Adam's spiny margarite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calliotropidae. ^{[1] [2]}

Description

The height of the gray to grayish white shell attains 20 mm.

(Original description in Latin by Carpenter) "Testa magna, conica, Turcicoidea, tenui ; albido-cinerea, nacreo-argentata ; anfr. nucleosis —? (decollatis), norm, vii, subplanatis, suturis alte insculptis ; superficie spirae tota valide tuberculosa, seriebus tribus, alteris postea intercalantibus; peripheria et basi rotundatis, carinatis; carinis circ. 8, haud acutis, irregularibus, scabris, haud tuberculosis; lacuna umbilicali vix conspicua ; apertura subrotundata ; labro tenuissimo; labio obsoleto ; columella arcuata. "

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California.

References

1. Rosenberg, G. (2025). Cidarina cidaris (Carpenter, 1864). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528712 on 2025-09-08
2. Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26

• Carpenter (1864), Ann. and Mag. N. H. xiv (3d ser.), p. 426.

External links

• Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
• Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
• Encyclopedia of Life
• USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
• ITIS
• World Register of Marine Species
• "Cidarina cidaris". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.