Calotrophon carnicolor

Calotrophon carnicolor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Calotrophon carnicolor
Shell of Calotrophon carnicolor (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricinae
Genus:
Calotrophon
Species:
C. carnicolor
Binomial name
Calotrophon carnicolor
(Clench & Farfante, 1945)
Synonyms[1]
  • Calotrophon (Panamurex) carnicolor (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)
  • Murex (Murexsul) carnicolor Clench & Farfante, 1945
  • Poirieria (Panamurex) carnicolor (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)

Description

The size of the shell attains 20 millimetres (0.79 in).

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Lesser Antilles off Guadeloupe and off Nevis and Barbados.

References
  1. Calotrophon carnicolor (Clench & Farfante, 1945). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2011.
  • Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 196
  • Garrigues B . & Lamy D. 2018, 218. Muricidae récoltés au cours de la campagne KARUBENTHOS 2 du MNHN dans les eaux profondes de Guadeloupe (Antilles Françaises) et description de trois nouvelles espèces des genres Pagodula et Pygmaepterys (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Xenophora Taxonomy 20: 34–52


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