Ancistrosyrinx clytotropis

Ancistrosyrinx clytotropis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae.[1][2]

Ancistrosyrinx clytotropis
Original drawing of a shell and its protoconch of Ancistrosyrinx clytotropis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Cochlespiridae
Genus: Ancistrosyrinx
Species:
A. clytotropis
Binomial name
Ancistrosyrinx clytotropis
(Sykes, 1906)
Synonyms[1]
  • Micropleurotoma clytotropis (Sykes, 1906)
  • Spirotropis clytotropis Sykes, 1906 (original description)

Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 4 mm.

(Original description) The elongate shell has a fusiform shape. It is pale brownish white (dead). The spire is well produced and contains five angulated and convex whorls. The protoconch consists of two whorls, large, glassy, and bulbous, smooth save for indistinct traces of microscopic spirals. The remaining whorls are strongly, angulated and carinated at the periphery. This carina appears on the later whorls as if duplex ; below this carina is a second, smaller one, and two more are obscurely indicated below. The aperture is strongly angled, and the siphonal canal is spout-like and slightly twisted.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters,[1] found at Vigo Bay, off Cape Mondego at a depth of 1980 m.

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References

  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
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