Cymatosyrinx parciplicata
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| Cymatosyrinx parciplicata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Cymatosyrinx |
| Species: | C. parciplicata |
| Binomial name | |
| Cymatosyrinx parciplicata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1915) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Drillia parciplicata Sowerby III, 1915 | |
Cymatosyrinx parciplicata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
Description
The shell grows to a length of 23 mm.
The shell is elongate-acuminate. Its color is dark white. The spire is elongate and contains 7 whorls. The first one is rounded, the second whorl is slightly convex, the others are convex and obtusely angulated. They show a few smooth oblique plicae. The interstices between the ribs are rather smooth. The body whorl is oblong and slightly convex on top and with a short, but conspicuous, fold below the suture. There is no dorsal varix. The siphonal canal is truncated.The columella is nearly straight and very thin plated.[2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the subtropical Northwest Pacific Ocean off Japan and the Philippines.
References
- 1 2 Cymatosyrinx parciplicata (Sowerby III, 1915). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 October 2011.
- ↑ G.B. Sowerby III,.Descriptions of new species of mollusca from various localities; The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History 8th ser. v. 16 (1915)
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
