Otitoma carnicolor

Species of gastropod

Otitoma carnicolor
Otitoma carnicolor (MNHN-IM-2000-2863)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Otitoma
Species:
O. carnicolor
Binomial name
Otitoma carnicolor
(Hervier, 1896)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia carnicolor Hervier, 1896 (original combination)
  • Thelecytharella carnicolor (Hervier, 1896)
  • Turris (Inquisitor) carnicola (Hervier, 1896)

Otitoma carnicolor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 8 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia.

References

  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Otitoma carnicolor (Hervier, 1896). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565527 on 2018-08-19
  • Hervier J. (1896 ["1895"]). Descriptions d’espèces nouvelles de l’Archipel Néo-Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie. 43(3): 141-152
  • Wiedrick S.G. (2014). Review of the genera Otitoma Jousseaume, 1880 and Thelecytharella with the description of two new species Gastropoda: Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae) from the southwest Pacific Ocean. The Festivus. 46(3): 40-53
  • Fischer-Piette, E., 1950. Liste des types décrits dans le Journal de Conchyliologie et conservés dans la collection de ce journal (avec planches)(suite). Journal de Conchyliologie 90: 149-180
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  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
  • Morassi M., Nappo A. & Bonfitto A. (2017). New species of the genus Otitoma Jousseaume, 1898 (Pseudomelatomidae, Conoidea) from the Western Pacific Ocean. European Journal of Taxonomy. 304: 1-30
  • Kilburn R.N. (2004) The identities of Otitoma and Antimitra (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conidae and Buccinidae). African Invertebrates, 45: 263-270
  • MNHN: specimen
  • Gastropods.com: Otitoma carnicolor
Taxon identifiers
Otitoma carnicolor


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