Siratus cailletti
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| Superfamily: | Muricoidea
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| Species: | S. cailletti
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| Siratus cailletti (Petit, 1856)
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Siratus cailletti, common name Caillet's murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1] Several sources write the name of the species as Siratus cailleti.
Description[]
The size of an adult shell varies between 50 mm and 90 mm.
with about half that length being the species' rather long siphonal canal.
A rare 'two-tailed' specimen of Siratus cailletti
This oddity occurs when the siphonal canal associated with the previous varix fails to break away.
Distribution[]
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles; along the Bahamas.
At Barbados this species has been trapped alive, in abundance, at depths from 450 – 550 ft. offshore the island's West coast.
It is also known from similar depths off the island's South coast.
References[]
- ^ a b Siratus cailletti (Petit, 1856). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 June 2011.
- Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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