Biology:Otitoma carnicolor

Short description: Species of gastropod

Otitoma carnicolor
Otitoma carnicolor (MNHN-IM-2000-2863)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Otitoma
Species:	O. carnicolor
Binomial name
Otitoma carnicolor (Hervier, 1896)
Synonyms
Drillia carnicolor Hervier, 1896 (original combination) Thelecytharella carnicolor (Hervier, 1896) Turris (Inquisitor) carnicola (Hervier, 1896)

Otitoma carnicolor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 8 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia.

References

• Hervier J. (1896 ["1895"]). Descriptions d’espèces nouvelles de l’Archipel Néo-Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie. 43(3): 141-152
• Wiedrick S.G. (2014). Review of the genera Otitoma Jousseaume, 1880 and Thelecytharella with the description of two new species Gastropoda: Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae) from the southwest Pacific Ocean. The Festivus. 46(3): 40-53
• Fischer-Piette, E., 1950. Liste des types décrits dans le Journal de Conchyliologie et conservés dans la collection de ce journal (avec planches)(suite). Journal de Conchyliologie 90: 149-180

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
• Morassi M., Nappo A. & Bonfitto A. (2017). New species of the genus Otitoma Jousseaume, 1898 (Pseudomelatomidae, Conoidea) from the Western Pacific Ocean. European Journal of Taxonomy. 304: 1-30
• Kilburn R.N. (2004) The identities of Otitoma and Antimitra (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conidae and Buccinidae). African Invertebrates, 45: 263-270
• MNHN: specimen
• Gastropods.com: Otitoma carnicolor

Wikidata ☰ Q13972523 entry