Curtitoma conoidea
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| Curtitoma conoidea | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Curtitoma conoidea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Curtitoma |
| Species: | C. conoidea |
| Binomial name | |
| Curtitoma conoidea (Sars G. O., 1878) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Curtitoma conoidea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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.[2]