''Mitromorpha sanctaluciaensis'' 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 Mitromorphidae
Mitromorphidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Mitromorphidae Casey, 1904. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marin ...
.
[MolluscaBase (2018). Mitromorpha sanctaluciaensis Espinosa & Ortea, 2017. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=993935 on 2018-03-12]
Description
Distribution
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off
Cuba.
References
* Espinosa J. & Ortea J. (2017). ''Dos nuevas especies cubanas del genero Mitromorpha Carpenter, 1865 (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Mitromorphidae).'' Avicennia. 20: 33–34.
sanctaluciaensis
Gastropods described in 2017
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