Coronium elegans
Appearance
Coronium elegans | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Coronium |
Species: | C. elegans
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Binomial name | |
Coronium elegans Simone, 1996[1]
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Coronium elegans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. It is found off the southeastern coast of Brazil.
Description
[edit]Shell size 73 mm.
Distribution
[edit]Western Atlantic, trawled at 100-150 m. off Santa Catarina, Brazil.
References
[edit]- ^ Coronium, a new genus of Muricidae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda) from off the southeastern coast of Brazil, with description of two new species. LRL Simone - Bulletin of Marine Science, 1996
External links
[edit]- Coronium elegans Simone, 1996. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.