Otitoma cyclophora
Species of gastropod
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Otitoma cyclophora is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
| Otitoma cyclophora | |
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| Shell of Otitoma cyclophora (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Otitoma |
| Species: | O. cyclophora |
| Binomial name | |
| Otitoma cyclophora (Deshayes, 1863) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 13 mm.
The white shell is elongate, slender and cylindrical. It is transversely finely ridged, interstices striated transversely, longitudinally faintly and obsoletely irregularly ribbed. The sutures are bordered on each side by a crenulated rib, the crenulations connected obliquely by a small ridge. The aperture is rather short. The sinus is broad and deep.[2]
Distribution
This marine species is occurs in the Red Sea; also off Northern Mozambique; the Mascarenes; Queensland, Australia, French Polynesia, the Philippines and Japan
