Retimohnia caelata

Retimohnia caelata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Retimohnia
Species: R. caelata
Binomial name
Retimohnia caelata
(A. E. Verrill & S. I. Smith, 1880)
Synonyms[1]
  • Colus caelatus (A. E. Verrill, 1880)
  • Colus obesus (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
  • Mohnia caelata (Verrill & S. I. Smith, 1880)
  • Neptunea (Sipho) caelata Verrill, 1880
  • Neptunea obesus Verrill, A.E., 1884
  • Sipho caelatulus Verrill, 1884
  • Sipho caelatus (Verrill & Smith, 1880)
  • Sipho caelatus var. hebes Verrill, 1884
  • Sipho hebes Verrill, 1884
  • Sipho obesus Verrill, 1884

Retimohnia caelata, common name : the plump whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 27 mm

Distribution

This speciesoccurs in European waters (Iceland) and in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean (from Massachusetts to North Carolina)

References


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