| Cidarina cidaris | |
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| 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] | |
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Cidarina cidaris, common name Adam's spiny margarite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calliotropidae. [1] [2]
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. "
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This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California.