Calotrophon carnicolor
Shell of Calotrophon carnicolor (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Calotrophon
Species:
C. carnicolor
Binomial name
Calotrophon carnicolor
(Clench & Farfante, 1945)
Synonyms[1]
  • Calotrophon (Panamurex) carnicolor (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)
  • Murex (Murexsul) carnicolor Clench & Farfante, 1945
  • Poirieria (Panamurex) carnicolor (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)

Introduction

Calotrophon carnicolor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

The scientific name of this species was first validated and published in 1945 by Clench Farfante & Isabel Pérez Farfante

Description

The size of the shell of a Calotrophon carnicolor attains 20 millimeters ( 2 cm; 0,78 in )

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Distribution

This species is distributed in the Lesser Antilles off Guadeloupe and off Nevis and Barbados.

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