Kurtziella accinctus
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| Drawing of a shell of Kurtziella accinctus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Kurtziella |
| Species: | K. accinctus
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| Binomial name | |
| Kurtziella accinctus (Montagu, 1808)
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Kurtziella accinctus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Description
[edit]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.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Colombia. This species was described by Montagu by error as British.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Kurtziella accinctus (Montagu, 1808). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 August 2011.
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
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