Curtitoma conoidea

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| authority = (Sars G. O., 1878)

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  • Bela conoidea Sars G. O., 1878
  • Oenopota conoidea (Sars G.O., 1878)
  • Pleurotoma conoidea Herzenstein, 1885

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Curtitoma conoidea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.{{WRMS species|367566|Curtitoma conoidea (Sars G. O., 1878)||8 August 2011}}

Description

The length of the shell varies between 8.5 mm and 15 mm.

The white shell is narrow and with a long spire. It contains 7 whorls, convex, without carina. The plications are slight, somewhat sigmoid, almost obsolete on the body whorl: everywhere covered with moderately strong revolving striae.[https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences]

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters off arctic Norway and Russia; on the continental shelf of the Alaska, Beaufort Sea.{{Cite web |url=https://www.boem.gov/ESPIS/5/5293.pdf |title=Konar, Brenda, and Alexandra M. Ravelo. Epibenthic Community Variability on the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Continental Shelf. Coastal Marine Institute, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska, 2013. |access-date=15 April 2017 |archive-date=16 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416045530/https://www.boem.gov/ESPIS/5/5293.pdf |url-status=dead }}

References

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  • Sars, G.O. (1878) Mollusca regionis arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de I Norges arktiskes region forekommende Bloddyr. Bidrag til kundskaben om Norges arktiske fauna. 1, 466 pp. Christiania
  • Bogdanov I. (1990). Mollusks of Oenopotinae Subfamily (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) in the seas of the USSR. Leningrad 221 p
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213