Kurtziella accinctus

Kurtziella accinctus
Drawing of a shell of Kurtziella accinctus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Kurtziella
Species:	K. accinctus
Binomial name
Kurtziella accinctus (Montagu, 1808)
Synonyms [1]
Daphnella accincta(Montagu, 1808) Murex accinctusMontagu, 1808

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm.

The shell is slightly shouldered. It is longitudinally obliquely ribbed, very closely spirally striated. Its color is white, with sometimes an orange-brown band below the periphery. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Colombia. This species was described by Montagu by error as British.

References

1. Kurtziella accinctus (Montagu, 1808) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.