Cirsotrema zelebori

Cirsotrema zelebori
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; informal group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily:	Epitonioidea
Family:	Epitoniidae
Genus:	Cirsotrema
Species:	C. zelebori
Binomial name
	Cirsotrema zelebori; (Dunker, 1866)
Synonyms
	Boreoscala zelebori (Dunker, 1866); Cirsotrema forresti (Dell, 1956); Cirsotrema reevei Clessin, 1897; Epitonium (Asperiscala) forresti Dell, R.K.; Epitonium zelebori Frauenfeld, 1898; Scalaria intermedia Hutton, 1873; Scalaria zelebori Dunker, 1866; Tioria forresti Dell, 1956;

Cirsotrema zelebori, common name : the slender wentletrap, is species of very small deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 12 mm and 25 mm

This species is endemic to the seas off the southern islands of New Zealand

^ ^a ^b Marshall, B. (2014). Cirsotrema zelebori (Dunker, 1866). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=524262 on 2014-12-02

Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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