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Cataegis finkli

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Species of gastropod

Cataegis finkli
Shell of Cataegis finkli (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Cataegidae
Genus: Cataegis
Species: C. finkli
Binomial name
Cataegis finkli
(Petuch, 1987)
Synonyms
  • Cataegis toreuta McLean & Quinn, 1987
  • Homalopoma finkli Petuch, 1987
  • Conus tristensis Petuch, E.J., 1987

Cataegis finkli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cataegidae.

Description

Original description: "Shell very large for genus, wide, inflated, turbinate in shape; spire narrow in proportion to shell width, elevated; body whorl ornamented with 8 large, well-developed, raised cords; spire whorls ornamented with 3 cords; outer layer of shell rough-textured, light brown in color; inner layer of shell nacreous with nacre showing through thin areas on spire and early whorls; outer lip and aperture flaring; columella thickened, nacreous, partially covered with white shelly layer; interior of aperture nacreous, iridescent; columella with one small tooth."

The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 37 mm.

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Off Puerto Cabello, Golfo de Triste, Venezuela."

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela and Colombia; in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida.

References

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. (2012). Cataegis finkli (Petuch, 1987). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512345 on 2013-04-14
  2. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
  3. ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 92. Publ: CERF
  • McLean, J.H. & Quinn J.F., 1987. Cataegis, new genus of three new species from the continental slope (Trochidae: Cataeginae New subfamily). The Nautilus 101(3): 111-116

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Taxon identifiers
Cataegis finkli


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