WoRMS taxon details
Cytharomorula grayi (Dall, 1889)
AphiaID: 140391
AphiaID: 140391
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Ergalataxinae (Subfamily) > Cytharomorula (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Cytharomorula Kuroda, 1953 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cantharus (Tritonidea) laevis E. A. Smith, 1890 (synonym) Nassarina grayi Dall, 1889 (original combination) Trophon lowei Watson, 1897 (synonym) | |||||||
| Sources |
original description: Dall W.H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25505 page(s): p. 183, pl. 32 fig. 12a [details] basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS) [details] original description (from synonym): Smith E. A. (1890) Report on the marine molluscan fauna of the island of St. Helena. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1890): 247-317, pl 21-24. [August 1890] page(s): 261, pl. 21 fig. 11 [details] [view taxon] identification resource: Houart R., Kilburn R.N. & Marais A.P. (2010) Muricidae. Pp. 176-270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp. [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | European waters (ERMS scope) [details] | |||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI | |||||||
| Notes |
Biology: Type of larval development: planktotrophic, inferred from multispiral protoconch. [details] Diagnosis: Shell up to 25 mm high, fusiform, with moderately high spire. Protoconch of 3-4 smooth whorls. Teleoconch sculpture of low, rouned spiral cords, narrower than the intervening spaces, somentimes wit a smaller cord intercalated, and of broad axial folds which reach very far abapically on the body whorl. The first teleoconch whorls have only 2-4 cords, one of which tends to form a shoulder which is lost on te later whorls. Aperture strongly thickened externally and internally, the inner rim with 4-5 rounded denticles; columella sometimes also with 1-2 faint knobs delimiting the siphonal canal, which is short and broadly open. Colour whitish with reddish-brown lines running on the larger cords and with large, blurry brown blotches along the periphery of the body whorl. [details] Distribution: Western Atlantic, from the Caribbean to Brazil; St Helena island, Eastern Atlantic in Madeira and Canary Islands but never reported along the mainland. Josephine, Seine and Ampère seamounts, moderately common in 165-310 m [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Type locality: Barbados [details] | |||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140391 | |||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Cytharomorula grayi (Dall, 1889). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140391 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||
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