''Conasprella booti'' is a species of

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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 ...

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in the family

Conidae Conidae, with the current common name of "cone snails", is a taxonomic family (previously subfamily) of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Conoidea. The 2014 classification of the superfamily Conoidea, groups onl ...

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, cone shells or cones.MolluscaBase (2018). Conasprella booti (Petuch, Berschauer & Poremski, 2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1025992 on 2018-03-26

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off

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References

*Petuch E.J., Berschauer D.P. & Poremski A. (2017). New species of Jaspidiconus (Conidae: Conilithinae) from the Carolinian and Caribbean Molluscan Provinces. The Festivus. 49(3): 237–246.page(s): 243, fig. 2B booti Gastropods described in 2017 Gastropods of Aruba {{Conidae-stub