Kurtziella accinctus explained

Kurtziella accinctus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm.

The shell is slightly shouldered. It is longitudinally obliquely ribbed, very closely spirally striated. Its color is white, with sometimes an orange-brown band below the periphery.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Colombia. This species was described by Montagu by error as British.

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Notes and References

  1. https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences