Mitromorpha aspera

Mitromorpha aspera
Drawing of a shell of Mitromorpha aspera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Mitromorphidae
Genus:Mitromorpha
Species: M. aspera
Binomial name
Mitromorpha aspera
(Carpenter, 1864)
Synonyms[1]

Daphnella aspera Carpenter, 1864

Mitromorpha aspera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.[1]

Description

The reddish brown shell is spirally lirate and longitudinally closely costulate, the intersections forming a roughly asperated surface. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off California, USA.

References

  1. 1 2 Mitromorpha aspera (Carpenter, 1864).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
  2. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Carpenter. Jour, de Conch., xii, 146, 1865
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.

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