Mitromorpha orcutti

Mitromorpha orcutti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.[1]

Mitromorpha orcutti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitromorphidae
Genus: Mitromorpha
Species:
M. orcutti
Binomial name
Mitromorpha orcutti
(Dall, 1920)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra orcutti Dall, 1920
  • Mitromorpha (Mitrolumna) orcutti (W.H. Dall, 1920)

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.6 mm, its diameter 2.7 mm.

(Original description) The small, white shell is mottled with yellow brown. It contains five whorls of which the white smooth blunt protoconch comprises one. The suture is distinct. The whorls are moderately convex. The spiral sculpture consists of (between the sutures four, on the body whorl about a dozen) strong rounded close-set cords closely undulated behind the periphery by numerous low narrow axial riblets with about equal interspaces. The cords in front of the periphery are not undulated, but extend to the end of the siphonal canal. There are also very fine axial striae in the interspaces. The aperture is narrow and simple. The columella shows two plaits. The siphonal canal is hardly differentiated.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off California, USA.

References
  1. Mitromorpha orcutti (Dall, 1920). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
  2. Dall W.H. (1920). A new species of Mitra from California. The Nautilus. 33: 103
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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