Kurtzina cyrene

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

Kurtzina cyrene
Original image of a shell of Kurtzina cyrene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Kurtzina
Species:
K. cyrene
Binomial name
Kurtzina cyrene
(Dall, 1919)
Synonyms[1]
  • Kurtziella cyrene (Dall, 1919)
  • Mangilia (Kurtziella) cyrene Dall, 1919 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 4.25 mm and 8.5 mm.

(Original description) The minute shell is waxen white. Its protoconch is very small, of 1½ smooth whorls, rapidly enlarging, followed by a minutely reticulated turn, of which the sculpture gradually merges into that of the adult type of four succeeding moderately rounded whorls separated by a distinct, not appressed suture. The spiral sculpture consists of a prominent sharp thread on the periphery slightly angulating it. Above this on the body whorl are two and below it on the base six or seven somewhat smaller threads with wider interspaces followed to the end of the siphonal canal by a more adjacent series of similar threads. The axial sculpture consists of (about 10 on the body whorl) rounded ribs extending from the suture over the base with much wider interspaces. The incremental lines are close-set, sharp, minutely raised, giving a frosted effect to the surface. The aperture is narrowly ovate. The outer lip is thin and sharp. The anal fasciole is feebly indicated. The inner lip and the columella are smooth. The siphonal canal is distinct, straight, short, and narrow.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs from the Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico, to Nicaragua

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Kurtzina cyrene (Dall, 1919). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=849203 on 2017-07-30
  2. Dall (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 56 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • McLean J.H. (1996). The Prosobranchia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 1–160
  • "Kurtzina cyrene". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
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