Cleospira ochsneri is a species of small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Cleospira |
| Species: | C. ochsneri
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| Binomial name | |
| Cleospira ochsneri (Hertlein & Strong, 1949)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 18 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Panama to Ecuador; also off the Galapagos Islands.
References
edit- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2011). Cleospira ochsneri (Hertlein & Strong, 1949). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581136 on 2012-07-08
External links
edit- Sowerby I, G.B. (1834 ["1833"]). New species of shells collected by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1: 134-139
- Gastropods.com: Cleospira ochsneri
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
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