Cancellaria cooperii, common name Cooper's nutmeg, is a species of medium-sized to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
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| Apertural view of shell of Cancellaria cooperii Gabb, 1865 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Cancellaria |
| Species: | C. cooperii
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| Cancellaria cooperii Gabb, 1865
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Description edit
This species attains a size of around 95 mm.
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Ecology edit
Life habits edit
This species is an ectoparasite that parasitizes the Pacific electric ray, Torpedo californica, and perhaps other benthic fishes.[2] Cooper's nutmeg is uncommonly found, offshore, on sandy substrate.
Known from depths 20 metres to 210 metres(prawn traps).
Distribution edit
This nutmeg snail occurs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey, California, to San Benito Island, in central Baja California, Mexico.
References edit
- ^ Cancellaria cooperii Gabb, 1865. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
- ^ J. B. O'Sullivan, R. R. McConnaughey, and M. E. Huber, A Blood-Sucking Snail: The Cooper's Nutmeg, Cancellaria cooperii Gabb, Parasitizes the California Electric Ray, Torpedo californica Ayres (1987), Biol. Bull. 172: 362–366
External links edit
- McLean, James H., 1978, Marine Shells of Southern California, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Museum, Science Series 24, Revised Edition, p 51.
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