Curtitoma violacea

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Curtitoma violacea
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Image of a shell of Curtitoma violacea
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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]

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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, USA;, 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.

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