Ceritoturris pupiformis | |
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Shell of Ceritoturris pupiformis (specimen at Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Horaiclavidae |
Genus: | Ceritoturris |
Species: | C. pupiformis
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Binomial name | |
Ceritoturris pupiformis (
E. A. Smith, 1884)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Ceritoturris pupiformis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae. [1]
The length of shell attains 4⅓ mm, its diameter 1⅓ mm.
The shell is oblong, narrow and almost pupiform. Its color is white and slightly red at the apex. It contains 8 whorls of which two in the protoconch. The whorls increase but slowly and the last three are of nearly the same width. They are divided at the suture by a fine keel, and a double series of largish and rather acute tubercles surround the middle. The small aperture measures about ⅓ the total length of the shell. The outer lip is thin. The siphonal canal is very short and narrow. [2]
This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman and in the Persian Gulf .
Ceritoturris pupiformis | |
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Shell of Ceritoturris pupiformis (specimen at Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Horaiclavidae |
Genus: | Ceritoturris |
Species: | C. pupiformis
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Binomial name | |
Ceritoturris pupiformis (
E. A. Smith, 1884)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Ceritoturris pupiformis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae. [1]
The length of shell attains 4⅓ mm, its diameter 1⅓ mm.
The shell is oblong, narrow and almost pupiform. Its color is white and slightly red at the apex. It contains 8 whorls of which two in the protoconch. The whorls increase but slowly and the last three are of nearly the same width. They are divided at the suture by a fine keel, and a double series of largish and rather acute tubercles surround the middle. The small aperture measures about ⅓ the total length of the shell. The outer lip is thin. The siphonal canal is very short and narrow. [2]
This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman and in the Persian Gulf .