Calotrophon carnicolor

Calotrophon carnicolor
Shell of Calotrophon carnicolor (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Calotrophon
Species:
C. carnicolor
Binomial name
Calotrophon carnicolor
(Clench & Farfante, 1945)
Synonyms[1]
  • Calotrophon (Panamurex) carnicolor (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)
  • Murex (Murexsul) carnicolor Clench & Farfante, 1945
  • Poirieria (Panamurex) carnicolor (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)

Introduction

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Calotrophon carnicolor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

The scientific name of this species was first validated and published in 1945 by Clench Farfante & Isabel Pérez Farfante

Description

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The size of the shell of a Calotrophon carnicolor attains 20 millimeters ( 2 cm; 0,78 in )

Distribution

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This species is distributed in the Lesser Antilles off Guadeloupe and off Nevis and Barbados.

References

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  • Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 196
  • Garrigues B . & Lamy D. 2018, 218. Muricidae récoltés au cours de la campagne KARUBENTHOS 2 du MNHN dans les eaux profondes de Guadeloupe (Antilles Françaises) et description de trois nouvelles espèces des genres Pagodula et Pygmaepterys (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Xenophora Taxonomy 20: 34–52