Calotrophon carnicolor
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| Shell of Calotrophon carnicolor (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Calotrophon |
| Species: | C. carnicolor
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| Calotrophon carnicolor (Clench & Farfante, 1945)
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Introduction
[edit]Calotrophon carnicolor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
The scientific name of this species was first validated and published in 1945 by Clench Farfante & Isabel Pérez Farfante
Description
[edit]The size of the shell of a Calotrophon carnicolor attains 20 millimeters ( 2 cm; 0,78 in )
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Distribution
[edit]This species is distributed in the Lesser Antilles off Guadeloupe and off Nevis and Barbados.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Calotrophon carnicolor (Clench & Farfante, 1945). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2011.
- Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 196
- Garrigues B . & Lamy D. 2018, 218. Muricidae récoltés au cours de la campagne KARUBENTHOS 2 du MNHN dans les eaux profondes de Guadeloupe (Antilles Françaises) et description de trois nouvelles espèces des genres Pagodula et Pygmaepterys (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Xenophora Taxonomy 20: 34–52
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