Glyphostoma canfieldi

Glyphostoma canfieldi
	Drawing of Glyphostoma canfieldi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Clathurellidae
Genus:	Glyphostoma
Species:	G. canfieldi
Binomial name
	Glyphostoma canfieldi; (Dall, 1871)
Synonyms
	Clathurella canfieldi Dall, 1871

Glyphostoma canfieldi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clathurellidae.^[2]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 8 mm. The shell is narrowly shouldered. Numerous indistinct longitudinal plications fade out towards the lower part of the body whorl. There are about sixteen revolving ridges on the body whorl. The anal sinus is deep. The shell is yellowish white, without bands or with from one to three narrow brown bands.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean along California, USA

References

^ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
^ ^a ^b Glyphostoma canfieldi (Dall, 1871). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 August 2011.
^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol.VI pp. 280–281; 1884 (described as Clathurella canfieldi)

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[Conoidea-1] P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.

[WoRMS-2] Glyphostoma canfieldi (Dall, 1871). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 August 2011.

[3] George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol.VI pp. 280–281; 1884 (described as Clathurella canfieldi)

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