Cancellaria cooperii
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Cancellaria cooperii, common name Cooper's nutmeg, is a species of medium-sized to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.{{WRMS species|464699|Cancellaria cooperii Gabb, 1865||6 April 2010}}
Description
This species attains a size of around 95 mm.
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Ecology
=Life habits=
This species is an ectoparasite that parasitizes the Pacific electric ray, Torpedo californica, and perhaps other benthic fishes.J. B. O'Sullivan, R. R. McConnaughey, and M. E. Huber, A Blood-Sucking Snail: The Cooper's Nutmeg, Cancellaria cooperii Gabb, Parasitizes the California Electric Ray, Torpedo californica Ayres (1987), Biol. Bull. 172: 362–366 Cooper's nutmeg is uncommonly found, offshore, on sandy substrate.
Known from depths 20 metres to 210 metres(prawn traps).
=Distribution=
This nutmeg snail occurs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey, California, to San Benito Island, in central Baja California, Mexico.
References
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[http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/reprint/172/3/362.pdf Link to Biol. Bull. article]
External links
- McLean, James H., 1978, Marine Shells of Southern California, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Museum, Science Series 24, Revised Edition, p 51.
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Category:Parasitic protostomes
Category:Animal parasites of fish
Category:Gastropods described in 1865
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