Cidarina cidaris

Cidarina cidaris, common name Adam's spiny margarite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eucyclidae.[1][2]

Cidarina cidaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Eucyclidae
Genus: Cidarina
Species:
C. cidaris
Binomial name
Cidarina cidaris
(Carpenter, 1864)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cidarina cidaris Adams, A., 1864
  • Lischkeia cidaris (Carpenter, 1864)
  • Margarita cidaris Carpenter, 1864

Description

The height of the gray to grayish white shell attains 20 mm.

(Original description in Latin by Carpenter) "Testa magna, conica, Turcicoidea, tenui ; albido-cinerea, nacreo-argentata ; anfr. nucleosis —? (decollatis), norm, vii, subplanatis, suturis alte insculptis ; superficie spirae tota valide tuberculosa, seriebus tribus, alteris postea intercalantibus; peripheria et basi rotundatis, carinatis; carinis circ. 8, haud acutis, irregularibus, scabris, haud tuberculosis; lacuna umbilicali vix conspicua ; apertura subrotundata ; labro tenuissimo; labio obsoleto ; columella arcuata. "

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California.

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References
  1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Cidarina cidaris (Carpenter, 1864). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528712 on 2013-04-14
  2. Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26
  • Carpenter (1864), Ann. and Mag. N. H. xiv (3d ser.), p. 426.
  • To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
  • To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
  • To Encyclopedia of Life
  • To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
  • To ITIS
  • To World Register of Marine Species
  • "Cidarina cidaris". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.


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