Calotrophon carnicolor

Calotrophon carnicolor
	Shell of Calotrophon carnicolor (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Calotrophon
Species:	C. carnicolor
Binomial name
	Calotrophon carnicolor; (Clench & Farfante, 1945)
Synonyms
	Calotrophon (Panamurex) carnicolor (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945); Murex (Murexsul) carnicolor Clench & Farfante, 1945; Poirieria (Panamurex) carnicolor (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945);

Calotrophon carnicolor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Description

The size of the shell attains 20 millimetres (0.79 in).

This species is distributed in the Lesser Antilles off Guadeloupe and off Nevis and Barbados.

Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 196
Garrigues B . & Lamy D. 2018, 218. Muricidae récoltés au cours de la campagne KARUBENTHOS 2 du MNHN dans les eaux profondes de Guadeloupe (Antilles Françaises) et description de trois nouvelles espèces des genres Pagodula et Pygmaepterys (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Xenophora Taxonomy 20: 34–52

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