Curtitoma novajasemljensis

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Curtitoma novajasemljensis
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Image of a shell of Curtitoma novajasemljensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Curtitoma
Species:C. novajasemljensis
Binomial name
Curtitoma novajasemljensis
(Leche, 1878)
Synonyms [1]
  • Pleurotoma novajasemljensisLeche, 1878
  • Curtitoma novajasemliensis(Leche, 1878) (misspelling)
  • Oenopota novajasemliensis(Leche, 1878) (currently placed in genus Curtitoma )

Curtitoma novajasemljensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. [1]

Sea snail common name for snails that normally live in saltwater

Sea snail is a common name for snails that normally live in salt water, in other words marine gastropods. The taxonomic class Gastropoda also includes snails that live in other habitats, such as land snails and freshwater snails. Many species of sea snails are edible and exploited as food sources by humans.

Family is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy; it is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as being the "walnut family".

Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.

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Description

The length of the shell varies between 4.9 mm and 33 mm.

The shell has a yellowish ash-color. It is finely and equally decussated by longitudinal and revolving lines. The whorls show a narrow shoulder. [2]

Whorl (mollusc)

A whorl is a single, complete 360° revolution or turn in the spiral growth of a mollusc shell. A spiral configuration of the shell is found in of numerous gastropods, but it is also found in shelled cephalopods including Nautilus, Spirula and the large extinct subclass of cephalopods known as the ammonites.

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters and in the Canadian Arctic waters; on the continental shelf of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea [3]

Beaufort Sea A marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska

The Beaufort Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska, and west of Canada's Arctic islands. The sea is named after Sir Francis Beaufort, a hydrographer. The Mackenzie River, the longest in Canada, empties into the Canadian part of the Beaufort Sea west of Tuktoyaktuk, which is one of the few permanent settlements on the sea shores.

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References

  1. 1 2 Curtitoma novajasemljensis (Leche, 1878) .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 8 August 2011.
  2. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
  3. ↑ Konar, Brenda, and Alexandra M. Ravelo. Epibenthic Community Variability on the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Continental Shelf. Coastal Marine Institute, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska, 2013.

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