''Curtitoma delicata'' is a species of
sea snail, a marine
gastropod mollusk
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in the
family
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Mangeliidae
Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
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[Bouchet, P. (2011). Curtitoma delicata (Okutani, 1964). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=580263 on 2017-04-15]
Description
Distribution
This marine species occurs off
Japan.
References
* Okutani, T. (1964) ''Report on the archibenthal and abyssal gastropod Mollusca mainly collected from Sagami Bay and adjacent waters by the R.V. Soyo-Maru during the years 1955–1963.'' Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, section II, 15 (3) : 371–447
* Hasegawa K. (2009) ''Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan''. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225–383
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682: 1–1295
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