Tritonoharpa bayeri

Tritonoharpa bayeri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Tritonoharpa
Species:
T. bayeri
Binomial name
Tritonoharpa bayeri
(Petuch, 1987)
Synonyms[1]

Colubraria bayeri Petuch, 1987

Tritonoharpa bayeri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

Description

Original description: "Shell small for genus, very thin and fragile, inflated, bullate; spire low in comparison to cogeners, shoulder and spire tabulate; 2 very thin, bladelike, low varices per whorl; 16-18 very narrow, low, axial riblets between sets of varices; axial riblets overlaid with numerous raised spiral threads; parietal shield erect, nonadherent; edge of lip thin, bladelike, crenulated; color pale tan with numerous large, scattered, amorphous reddish-brown patches; varices marked with one large medial reddish-brown checker-shaped flammule and smaller brown dashes; interior of aperture pale tan, with brown checkers of labial varix showing through."[2]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Off Cabo La Vela, Goajira Peninsula, Colombia."[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Tritonoharpa bayeri (Petuch, 1987). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
  2. ^ a b Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 102. Publ: CERF


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