Kurtzina cymatias

Kurtzina cymatias is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Kurtzina cymatias
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Kurtzina
Species:
K. cymatias
Binomial name
Kurtzina cymatias
(H.A. Pilsbry & H.N. Lowe, 1932)
Synonyms

Mangilia cymatias H.A. Pilsbry & H.N. Lowe, 1932 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Acapulco, Mexico.

References
  1. Pilsbry, Henry Augustus, and Herbert N. Lowe. "West Mexican and Central American mollusks collected by HN Lowe, 1929-31." Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1932): 33–144
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