Cleospira ochsneri

Cleospira ochsneri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Cleospira
Species:	C. ochsneri
Binomial name
	Cleospira ochsneri; (Hertlein & Strong, 1949)
Synonyms
	Cleospira bicolor (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834); Crassispira ochsneri (Hertlein & Strong, 1949); Monilispira ochsneri Hertlein & Strong, 1949; Pleurotoma bicolor G. B. Sowerby I, 1834 (invalid: junior homonym of Pleurotoma bicolor Risso, 1826; Monilispira ochsneri is a replacement name);

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Cleospira ochsneri is a species of small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 18 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Panama to Ecuador; also off the Galapagos Islands.

References

^ ^a ^b Bouchet, P. (2011). Cleospira ochsneri (Hertlein & Strong, 1949). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581136 on 2012-07-08

Hertlein, Leo George, and A. M. Strong. "Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society." XXXIV. Mollusks from the west coast of Mexico and Central America. Part III. New York Zoological Society, Zoologica 31.2 (1946): 53-76

External links

Sowerby I, G.B. (1834 ["1833"]). New species of shells collected by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1: 134-139
Gastropods.com: Cleospira ochsneri
Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.

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[WoRMS-1] Bouchet, P. (2011). Cleospira ochsneri (Hertlein & Strong, 1949). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581136 on 2012-07-08

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