Curtitoma lawrenciana

Curtitoma lawrenciana
	Shell of Curtitoma lawrenciana (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Curtitoma
Species:	C. lawrenciana
Binomial name
	Curtitoma lawrenciana; (Dall, 1919)
Synonyms
	Bela tenuilirata Krause, 1886 (not Dall, 1871); Lora lawrenciana Dall, 1919; Lora nazanensis Dall, 1919;

Curtitoma lawrenciana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 18 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Chukchi Sea, Northeast Russia, in the northern part of the Sea of Japan and off the Aleutians; found at depths between 62 m and 800 m.

References

^ ^a ^b Curtitoma lawrenciana (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.

Dall, W.H. (1919b) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 56, 293–371
Dall, William Healey. Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America: from San Diego, California, to the Polar Sea, mostly contained in the collection of the United States National museum, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species. No. 112. Govt. print. off., 1921.

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[WoRMS-1] Curtitoma lawrenciana (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.

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