Sinum grayi

Sinum grayi
Two shells of Sinum grayi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Naticidae
Genus:	Sinum
Species:	S. grayi
Binomial name
Sinum grayi (Deshayes, 1843)
Synonyms
Sigaretus grayiDeshayes, 1843 (original combination) Sinum (Sinum) grayi(Deshayes, 1843) · alternate representation

Sinum grayi is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 48.3 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Chile

References

1. Sinum gray (Menke, 1828) . WoRMS (2012). Sinum grayi (Deshayes, 1843). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575244 on 26 November 2012 .

• Chenu, 1843 Parts 16. In Illustrations Conchyliologiques ou description et figures de toutes les coquilles connues vivantes et fossiles, classées suivant le système de Lamarck modifié d'après les progrès de la science et comprenant les genres nouveaux et les espèces récemment découvertes, p. Sigaretus pp 9–12; Poronia pp 1–3; Glycimeris pp 1; Tubicinella pp; Corbis pp 1; Strombus pl 1; Spondylus pl 7; Balanus pl 5, 6; Magilus pl 2
• Keen, A. M. (1971). Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru. ed. 2. Stanford University Press. xv, 1064 pp., 22 pls.
• Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011). Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum. 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls