Calotrophon carnicolor | |
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Shell of Calotrophon carnicolor (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Calotrophon |
Species: | C. carnicolor
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Binomial name | |
Calotrophon carnicolor (Clench & Farfante, 1945)
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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
The size of the shell of a Calotrophon carnicolor attains 20 millimeters ( 2 cm; 0,78 in )
This species is distributed in the Lesser Antilles off Guadeloupe and off Nevis and Barbados.