Curtitoma lawrenciana
Curtitoma lawrenciana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
| Curtitoma lawrenciana | |
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| Shell of Curtitoma lawrenciana (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Curtitoma |
| Species: | C. lawrenciana |
| Binomial name | |
| Curtitoma lawrenciana (Dall, 1919) | |
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Description
The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 18 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Chukchi Sea, Northeast Russia, in the northern part of the Sea of Japan and off the Aleutians; found at depths between 62 m and 800 m.
References
- Curtitoma lawrenciana (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.
- Dall, W.H. (1919b) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 56, 293–371
- Dall, William Healey. Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America: from San Diego, California, to the Polar Sea, mostly contained in the collection of the United State National museum, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species. No. 112. Govt. print. off., 1921.
External links
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295.
- "Curtitoma lawrenciana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Gulbin, Vladimir V. "Review of the Shell-bearing Gastropods in the Russian Waters of the East Sea (Sea of Japan). III. Caenogastropoda: Neogastropoda." The Korean Journal of Malacology 25.1 (2009): 51–70
- Schonberg, Susan V., Janet T. Clarke, and Kenneth H. Dunton. "Distribution, abundance, biomass and diversity of benthic infauna in the Northeast Chukchi Sea, Alaska: Relation to environmental variables and marine mammals." Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 102 (2014): 144–163
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