Cryoturris citronella

Cryoturris citronella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Cryoturris citronella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Cryoturris
Species:
C. citronella
Binomial name
Cryoturris citronella
(Dall, 1886)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cryoturris cruzana Nowell-Usticke, G.W., 1969
  • Kurtziella citronella (Dall, 1886)
  • Kurtziella cruzana G.W. Nowell-Usticke, 1969
  • Pleurotoma citronella Dall, 1886 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 10.5 mm.

This marine species has a very minute brown tilted protoconch, followed by three trochoid larval whorls. The brilliant yellow spire is markedly shorter than the body whorl, with inflated whorls. The shell contains twelve transverse riblets. There is no varix, and a very faint sutural notch, while the suture is distinct and not appressed. The four larval whorls are prettily marked with transverse concave ripples.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in Atlantic waters, ranging from the coast of North Carolina south to the Virgin Islands; in the Caribbean Sea off Cuba[3] in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles.

References
  1. Cryoturris citronella (Dall, 1886). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.
  2. Dall, W. H. 1889b. Reports on the results of dredgings, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer 'Blake,' Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 18 1–492, pls. 10–40
  3. Tunnell, John W., Jr., Felder, Darryl L., & Earle, Sylvia A., eds. Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, Volume 1: Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 2009. 666.
  • Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
  • "Kurtziella citronella". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295.
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