Cantrainea peloritana

Cantrainea peloritana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Phasianelloidea
Family: Colloniidae
Subfamily: Colloniinae
Genus: Cantrainea
Species: C. peloritana
Binomial name
Cantrainea peloritana
(Cantraine, 1835)
Synonyms[1]

Turbo peloritanus Cantraine, 1835

Cantrainea peloritana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.[1]

Description

The height of the shell varies between 5 mm and 20 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Bay of Biscayne and in the Mediterranean Sea.

References


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