''Cataegis finkli'' is a

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Cataegidae Cataegidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). ''Cataegidae''. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p= ...

.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Cataegis finkli'' (Petuch, 1987). Retrieved through:

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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512345 on 2013-04-14

Description

Original description: "Shell very large for genus, wide, inflated, turbinate in shape; spire narrow in proportion to shell width, elevated; body whorl ornamented with 8 large, well-developed, raised cords; spire whorls ornamented with 3 cords; outer layer of shell rough-textured, light brown in color; inner layer of shell nacreous with nacre showing through thin areas on spire and early whorls; outer lip and aperture flaring; columella thickened, nacreous, partially covered with white shelly layer; interior of aperture nacreous, iridescent; columella with one small tooth."
The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 37 mm.

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Off Puerto Cabello, Golfo de Triste, Venezuela."Petuch, E.J. 1987-''New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas'', page 92. Publ: CERF
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off

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; in the Gulf of Mexico off

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References

* McLean, J.H. & Quinn J.F., 1987. ''Cataegis, new genus of three new species from the continental slope (Trochidae: Cataeginae New subfamily).'' The Nautilus 101(3): 111-116

External links

To Encyclopedia of Life

To World Register of Marine Species
finkli Gastropods described in 1987 {{Cataegidae-stub