Cantrainea sunderlandi explained

Cantrainea sunderlandi is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.[1] [2]

Description

Original description: "Shell thick, solid, turbinate in shape; spire elevated with stepped appearance; shoulder very sharply angled, carinated; area between shoulder carina and suture flattened, distinctly tabulate; body whorls and spire whorls sculptured with numerous fine, smooth, spiral threads; outer edge of lip thickened, flaring; columella and base well-developed, white in color; interior and periphery of aperture nacreous; shell color pale straw-tan; operculum oval, smooth, shelly, white in color."[3]

The shell grows to a height of 16 mm.

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Roatan Island, Honduras."[4]

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Honduras.

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Notes and References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Cantrainea sunderlandi (Petuch, 1987). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581286 on 2013-02-10
  2. Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2009). An updated list of the recent Bolma species (Gastropoda: Turbinidae) with description of two new species from French Polynesia and New Caledonia. Novapex 10(1): 17-24
  3. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 63. Publ: CERF
  4. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 63. Publ: CERF