''Curtitoma piltuniensis'' 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.
Description
The length of the shell attains 7.5 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off
Sakhalin, Eastern Russia.
References
* Bogdanov, I. P. "NEW SPECIES OF GASTROPODS OF THE GENUS OENOPOTA (GASTROPODA, TURRIDAE) FROM THE FAR-EAST SEAS OF THE USSR." ZOOLOGICHESKY ZHURNAL 64.3 (1985): 448–453.
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295
piltuniensis
Gastropods described in 1985
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