Coronium elegans

Coronium elegans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Coronium
Species:	C. elegans
Binomial name
Coronium elegans Simone, 1996[1]

Coronium elegans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. It is found off the southeastern coast of Brazil.

Description

Shell size 73 mm.

Distribution

Western Atlantic, trawled at 100-150 m. off Santa Catarina, Brazil.

References

1. Coronium, a new genus of Muricidae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda) from off the southeastern coast of Brazil, with description of two new species. LRL Simone - Bulletin of Marine Science, 1996

External links

• Coronium elegans Simone, 1996. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.