Mitromorpha aspera

Mitromorpha aspera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.[1]

Mitromorpha aspera
Shell of Mitromorpha aspera (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mitromorphidae
Genus: Mitromorpha
Species:
M. aspera
Binomial name
Mitromorpha aspera
(Carpenter, 1864)
Synonyms[1]

Daphnella aspera Carpenter, 1864

Description

The reddish brown shell is spirally lirate and longitudinally closely costulate, the intersections forming a roughly asperated surface. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off California, USA.

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References
  1. Mitromorpha aspera (Carpenter, 1864). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
  2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Carpenter. Jour, de Conch., xii, 146, 1865
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.

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