Cymatosyrinx carpenteri

Cymatosyrinx carpenteri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]

Cymatosyrinx carpenteri
Drawing of a shell of Cymatosyrinx carpenteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Cymatosyrinx
Species:
C. carpenteri
Binomial name
Cymatosyrinx carpenteri
(Verrill & Smith, 1880) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Daphnella carpenteri Verrill & Smith, 1880
  • Inodrillia carpenteri (Verrill & Smith in Verrill, 1880)
  • Pleurotoma carpenteri Verrill & Smith, 1880

Description

The shell is scarcely shouldered, with about twelve short flexuous longitudinal ribs and no spiral sculpture. The shell is white or pale yellow, often with darker brownish yellow ribs. The shell grows to a length of 7 mm.[3]

(Original description) The rather small, pale brownish shell is solid and slender. Its surface is glossy. The shell contains 8 whorls, somewhat convex, crossed by about twelve strong, elevated, flexuous, smooth, rounded longitudinal ribs, which extend entirely across the upper whorls, and on the body whorl from the suture to the middle, below which the surface is smooth. The interstices between the ribs are deeply concave, wider than the ribs, and perfectly smooth, except the faint lines of growth. The outer lip shows a broad shallow notch, below the suture. The ovate aperture is rather small. The siphonal canal is short, narrow and straight. The columella is nearly straight.[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the tropical Western Atlantic Ocean.

References
  1. Verrill and Smith, Am. Jour. Sc., 3d ser., xx, p. 395.
  2. Cymatosyrinx carpenteri (Verrill & Smith, 1880). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 October 2011.
  3. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 312; 1884 (treated as Daphnella carpenteri)
  4. Verrill & S. Smith (in Verrill), 1880) Verrill, A. E. (1880). Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying the outer banks off the southern coast of New England. American Journal of Science. 3(20): 390–403
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295.
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