''Cantrainea sunderlandi'' is a
species of small
sea snail
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with
calcareous opercula, a
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Colloniidae
Colloniidae is a family of small sea snails with calcareous opercula, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Colloniidae Cossmann, 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at ...
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[Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Cantrainea sunderlandi'' (Petuch, 1987). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581286 on 2013-02-10]
Description
Original description: "Shell thick, solid, turbinate in shape; spire elevated with stepped appearance; shoulder very sharply angled, carinated; area between shoulder carina and suture flattened, distinctly tabulate; body whorls and spire whorls sculptured with numerous fine, smooth, spiral threads; outer edge of lip thickened, flaring; columella and base well-developed, white in color; interior and periphery of aperture nacreous; shell color pale straw-tan; operculum oval, smooth, shelly, white in color."
The shell grows to a height of 16 mm.
Distribution
Locus typicus: "Roatan Island, Honduras."
[Petuch, E.J. 1987-''New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas'', page 63. Publ: CERF]
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off
Honduras
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References
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
Colloniidae
Gastropods described in 1987
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