Coralliophila pacei

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

Coralliophila pacei
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Coralliophilinae
Genus: Coralliophila
Species:
C. pacei
Binomial name
Coralliophila pacei
Petuch, 1987

Description

Original description: "Shell small for genus, with ovate, inflated body whorl and elevated, scalariform spire; body whorl ornamented with 2 large fimbriated spiral cords, one at shoulder and one below (anterior to) mid-body; 3 small squamose spiral cords between suture and large shoulder cord; 2 small squamose spiral cords between 2 large cords around anterior end; 9 low varices per whorl; large scale produced at intersection of varix and spiral cord, giving shell fimbriated appearance; shell uniformly cream-white in color."[2]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Off Pompano outfall, Pompano Beach, Florida, USA."[3]

This species recently discovered in Martinique, French West Indies.

References
  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Coralliophila pacei Petuch, 1987. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994493 on 2019-01-06
  2. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 27. Publ: CERF
  3. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 27. Publ: CERF


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