Biology:Kryptos koehleri

Short description: Species of gastropod

Kryptos koehleri
Shell of Kryptos koehleri (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Kryptos
Species:	K. koehleri
Binomial name
Kryptos koehleri (Locard, 1896)
Synonyms
Kryptos elegans Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896 Pleurotomella atlantica Locard, 1897 Pleurotomella demulcata Locard, 1897 Pleurotomella koehleri Locard, 1896

Kryptos koehleri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 20 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the North Atlantic Ocean (Bay of Biscay, Morocco, Azores)

References

• Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico Suppl. 1: 121–296

External links

• Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER,José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114
• "Kryptos koehleri" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/8/Shell_33308.shtml. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3173043 entry