Cochlespira kuroharai

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Cochlespira kuroharai
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Cochlespiridae
Genus: Cochlespira
Species:
C. kuroharai
Binomial name
Cochlespira kuroharai
(Kuroda, 1959)
Synonyms[1]

Ancistrosyrinx kuroharai Kuroda, 1959

Cochlespira kuroharai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae, the turrids.[1][2]

Description[]

The length of the shell attains 31 mm, its width 11.2 mm and contains 10 whorls. The elongate fusiform spire is rather broadly conical with a prominent granulose basal keel and a heavier, rounded peripheral keel above one third of the height of the whorl. The siphonal canal is long and straight.[3]

Distribution[]

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Japan and the Philippines.

References[]

  1. ^ a b Cochlespira kuroharai (Kuroda, 1959). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 August 2011.
  2. ^ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  3. ^ Indo-Pacific mollusca; Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Delaware Museum of Natural History; v. 2 # 9-10: p. 403

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