Curtitoma violacea

Curtitoma violacea
Image of a shell of Curtitoma violacea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Curtitoma
Species:	C. violacea
Binomial name
Curtitoma violacea (Mighels & C.B Adams, 1842)
Synonyms [1]
Bela bicarinata(Couthouy, 1838) Bela bicarinata nodulosaKrause, 1885 Bela bicarinata var. geminolineataFriele, 1879 Bela minusculariaLocard, 1897 Bela violacea(Mighels & Adams, 1842) Bela violacea var. laeviorSars G.O., 1878 Bela violacea var. rufescensSars G.O., 1878 Defrancia beckiMøller, 1842 Defrancia cylindraceaMøller, 1842 Oenopota bicarinata(Couthouy, 1838) Pleurotoma (Bela) violacea(Mighels & Adams, 1842) Pleurotoma bicarinataCouthouy, 1838 (non Wood, 1828) Pleurotoma violaceaMighels & Adams, 1842 (original combination)

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 5.5 mm and 16 mm.

The shell is multicarinate, the interstices longitudinally striate. Its color is pale violaceous or whitish, sometimes indistinctly fasciated with a darker color above. The columella is one- or two-plaited. The outer lip is acute, crenulated, and has a slight sinus. The siphonal canal is short. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Eastern Canada to New York City, United States; off Greenland, Spitzbergen, arctic Norway and off France; in the Laptev Sea, Russia; in the Sea of Japan; found at depths between 6 m and 90 m.

References

1. Curtitoma violacea (Mighels & C.B Adams, 1842) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 29 March 2010.
2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (described as Pleurotoma violacea)

• Mighels, J.W. and Adams C.B. (1842) Descriptions of twenty-four species of the shells of New England. Boston Journal of Natural History, 4: 37–5
• Locard, A., 1897 Mollusques testacés. In: Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, vol. 1, p. 516 p, 22 pls
• Brunel, P.; Bosse, L.; Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
• Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp.
• Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p.
• Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295.
• "Curtitoma violacea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Trott, Thomas J. "Cobscook Bay inventory: A historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years." Northeastern Naturalist 11.sp2 (2004): 261–324
• Gulbin, Vladimir V. "Review of the Shell-bearing Gastropods in the Russian Waters of the East Sea (Sea of Japan). III. Caenogastropoda: Neogastropoda." The Korean Journal of Malacology 25.1 (2009): 51–70
• MNHN, Paris : Curtitoma violacea