''Conasprella tayrona'' is a species of
sea snail
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, a
marine
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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 ...
mollusc
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in the
family Conidae
Conidae, with the current common name of "cone snails", is a taxonomic family (previously subfamily) of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Conoidea.
The 2014 classification of the superfamily Conoidea, groups onl ...
, the
cone snails
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, cone shells or cones.
[MolluscaBase (2018). Conasprella tayrona (Petuch, Berschauer & Poremski, 2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1025991 on 2018-03-26]
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off
Colombia
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.
References
*Petuch E.J., Berschauer D.P. & Poremski A. (2017). New species of Jaspidiconus (Conidae: Conilithinae) from the Carolinian and Caribbean Molluscan Provinces. The Festivus. 49(3): 237–246.
tayrona
Gastropods described in 2017
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