Curtitoma violacea

Curtitoma violacea
	Image of a shell of Curtitoma violacea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Curtitoma
Species:	C. violacea
Binomial name
	Curtitoma violacea; (Mighels & C.B Adams, 1842)
Synonyms
	Bela bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838); Bela bicarinata nodulosa Krause, 1885; Bela bicarinata var. geminolineata Friele, 1879; Bela minuscularia Locard, 1897; Bela violacea (Mighels & Adams, 1842); Bela violacea var. laevior Sars G.O., 1878; Bela violacea var. rufescens Sars G.O., 1878; Defrancia becki Møller, 1842; Defrancia cylindracea Møller, 1842; Oenopota bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838); Pleurotoma (Bela) violacea (Mighels & Adams, 1842); Pleurotoma bicarinata Couthouy, 1838 (non Wood, 1828); Pleurotoma violacea Mighels & Adams, 1842 (original combination);

Curtitoma violacea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 5.5 mm and 16 mm.

The shell is multicarinate, the interstices longitudinally striate. Its color is pale violaceous or whitish, sometimes indistinctly fasciated with a darker color above. The columella is one- or two-plaited. The outer lip is acute, crenulated, and has a slight sinus. The siphonal canal is short.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Eastern Canada to New York, USA;, off Greenland, Spitzbergen, arctic Norway and off France; in the Laptev Sea, Russia; in the Sea of Japan; found at depths between 6 m and 90 m.

References

^ ^a ^b Curtitoma violacea (Mighels & C.B Adams, 1842). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (described as Pleurotoma violacea)

Mighels, J.W. and Adams C.B. (1842) Descriptions of twenty-four species of the shells of New England. Boston Journal of Natural History, 4: 37-5
Brunel, P.; Bosse, L.; Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp.
Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p.
Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p.

External links

[WoRMS-1] Curtitoma violacea (Mighels & C.B Adams, 1842). 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 (described as Pleurotoma violacea)

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