Cataegis finkli (Petuch 1987)

Cataegis finkli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cataegidae.^[1][2]

Description

Original description: "Shell very large for genus, wide, inflated, turbinate in shape; spire narrow in proportion to shell width, elevated; body whorl ornamented with 8 large, well-developed, raised cords; spire whorls ornamented with 3 cords; outer layer of shell rough-textured, light brown in color; inner layer of shell nacreous with nacre showing through thin areas on spire and early whorls; outer lip and aperture flaring; columella thickened, nacreous, partially covered with white shelly layer; interior of aperture nacreous, iridescent; columella with one small tooth."^[3]

The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 37 mm.

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Off Puerto Cabello, Golfo de Triste, Venezuela."^[4]

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela and Colombia; in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida.

References

• McLean, J.H. & Quinn J.F., 1987. Cataegis, new genus of three new species from the continental slope (Trochidae: Cataeginae New subfamily). The Nautilus 101(3): 111-116

Cataegis finkli is een slakkensoort uit de familie van de Cataegidae.^[1] De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1987 door Petuch.