Tritonoharpa bayeri

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Tritonoharpa bayeri
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Tritonoharpa
Species:
T. bayeri
Binomial name
Tritonoharpa bayeri
(Petuch, 1987)
Synonyms [1]

Colubraria bayeriPetuch, 1987

Tritonoharpa bayeri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails. [1]

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Description

Original description: "Shell small for genus, very thin and fragile, inflated, bullate; spire low in comparison to cogeners, shoulder and spire tabulate; 2 very thin, bladelike, low varices per whorl; 16-18 very narrow, low, axial riblets between sets of varices; axial riblets overlaid with numerous raised spiral threads; parietal shield erect, nonadherent; edge of lip thin, bladelike, crenulated; color pale tan with numerous large, scattered, amorphous reddish-brown patches; varices marked with one large medial reddish-brown checker-shaped flammule and smaller brown dashes; interior of aperture pale tan, with brown checkers of labial varix showing through." [2]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Off Cabo La Vela, Goajira Peninsula, Colombia." [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Tritonoharpa bayeri (Petuch, 1987) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 6 April 2010.
  2. 1 2 Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 102. Publ: CERF