''Cantrainea jamsteci'' is a species of small

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

with calcareous opercula, a

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gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk in the family

Colloniidae Colloniidae is a family of small sea snails with calcareous opercula, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Colloniidae Cossmann, 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at ...

.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Cantrainea jamsteci'' (Okutani & Fujikura, 1990). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512323 on 2013-02-10Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)

Distribution

This marine species occurs off

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References

* Okutani T. & Fujikura K., 1990. A New Turbinid Gastropod Collected from the Warm Seep Site in the Minami-Ensei Knoll, West of the Amami-Oshima Island, Japan. Venus 49(2): 83-91

External links

To Encyclopedia of Life

To World Register of Marine Species
Colloniidae Gastropods described in 1990 {{Colloniidae-stub