| Doxospira hertleini | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Doxospira |
| Species: | D. hertleini |
| Binomial name | |
| Doxospira hertleini Shasky, 1971 | |
Doxospira hertleini is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. [1]
It was first described in Shasky, D.R. (1971). "Ten new species of tropical Eastern Pacific Turridae." The Veliger. 14(1): 67-72, 1 pl [2] where it was described as: "Shell rather large, fusiform; colour yellowish white with weak, yellowish brown bands on some specimens just superior to the suture, shell covered with a rather adherent brownish grey periostracum, protoconch of four eroded conical whorls; subsequent whorls about 12...Outer lip thin, gently flaring, smooth within and with a moderate stromboid notch at the lower end...Dimensions of holotype: height 41.8mm, diameter 16.6mm, length of aperture 18.5mm." [2]
In the original description, the author dedicates the new species of sea snail to "Dr Leo Hertlein of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco." [2]
Doxospira hertleini's feeding type is predatory. [3]
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This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica and Panama.
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