''Cryoturris edithae'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

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 Mangeliidae.Rosenberg, G. (2010). Cryoturris edithae (Nowell-Usticke, 1971). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532692 on 2017-04-12

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.6 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela and the

Grenadines The Grenadines is a chain of small islands that lie on a line between the larger islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Nine are inhabited and open to the public (or ten, if the offshore island of Young Island is counted): ...

References

* Nowell-Usticke, G. W. "A supplementary listing of new shells (illustrated), revised edition, to be added to the check list of the marine shells of St. Croix." (1971).

External links

*
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682: 1–1295.
edithae {{Mangeliidae-stub