Cantrainea peloritana
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| Cantrainea peloritana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Family: | Colloniidae |
| Genus: | Cantrainea |
| Species: | C. peloritana |
| Binomial name | |
| Cantrainea peloritana (Cantraine, 1835) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Turbo peloritanus Cantraine, 1835 | |
Cantrainea peloritana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Colloniidae.[1]
The height of the shell varies between 5 mm and 20 mm.
Cantrainea peloritana lives in the bathyal zone at depths between 545m and 1300m. In the Mediterranean it lives on white coral and in the Atlantic it lives on sand or gravel.[2]