Tritonoharpa bayeri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
| Tritonoharpa bayeri | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Tritonoharpa |
| Species: | T. bayeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Tritonoharpa bayeri (Petuch, 1987)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Colubraria bayeri Petuch, 1987 | |
Description
editOriginal description: "Shell small for genus, very thin and fragile, inflated, bullate; spire low in comparison to cogeners, shoulder and spire tabulate; 2 very thin, bladelike, low varices per whorl; 16-18 very narrow, low, axial riblets between sets of varices; axial riblets overlaid with numerous raised spiral threads; parietal shield erect, nonadherent; edge of lip thin, bladelike, crenulated; color pale tan with numerous large, scattered, amorphous reddish-brown patches; varices marked with one large medial reddish-brown checker-shaped flammule and smaller brown dashes; interior of aperture pale tan, with brown checkers of labial varix showing through."[2]
Distribution
editLocus typicus: "Off Cabo La Vela, Goajira Peninsula, Colombia."[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Tritonoharpa bayeri (Petuch, 1987). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
- ^ a b Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 102. Publ: CERF
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