Kurtziella antipyrgus

Kurtziella antipyrgus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Kurtziella
Species:	K. antipyrgus
Binomial name
Kurtziella antipyrgus (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)
Synonyms [1]
Mangelia (Kurtziella) antipyrgusPilsbry & Lowe, 1932

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 10 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Acapulco, Pacific Mexico, Mexico to Ecuador.

References

1. Kurtziella antipyrgus (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 August 2011.

• H. A. Pilsbry and H. N. Lowe, West Mexican and Central American Mollusks Collected by H. N. Lowe, 1929-31; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Vol. 84 (1932), pp. 33–144

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
• "Kurtziella antipyrgus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.