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Calotrophon carnicolor

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Species of gastropod

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
  • Calotrophon (Panamurex) carnicolor (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)
  • Murex (Murexsul) carnicolor Clench & Farfante, 1945
  • Poirieria (Panamurex) carnicolor (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)

Introduction

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

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

Description

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

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (April 2011)

Distribution

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

References

  1. ^ Calotrophon carnicolor (Clench & Farfante, 1945). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2011.
  • 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
Taxon identifiers
Calotrophon carnicolor


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