''Strictispira coltrorum'' is a

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of small

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, a marine

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mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the

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Pseudomelatomidae Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda ( Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). In 1995 Kantor elevated the subfamily Pseudomelatomina ...

, the turrids and allies.

Description

The length of the shell attains 10.9 mm, its diameter 4 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the

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off Espírito Santo,

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References

External links

Tippett D.L. (2006). ''The genus Strictispira in the western Atlantic (Gastropoda: Conoidea).'' Malacologia. 48(1–2): 43–64.

Abdelkrim J., Aznar-Cormano L., Fedosov A., Kantor Y., Lozouet P., Phuong M., Zaharias P. & Puillandre N. (2018). Exon-capture based phylogeny and diversification of the venomous gastropods (Neogastropoda, Conoidea). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35(10): 2355–2374

Gastropods.com: ''Strictispira coltrorum''
coltrorum Gastropods described in 2006 {{Pseudomelatomidae-stub