Curtitoma lawrenciana (Dall 1919)

Curtitoma lawrenciana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 18 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Chukchi Sea, Northeast Russia, in the northern part of the Sea of Japan and off the Aleutians; found at depths between 62 m and 800 m.

References

• Dall, W.H. (1919b) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 56, 293–371
• Dall, William Healey. Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America: from San Diego, California, to the Polar Sea, mostly contained in the collection of the United States National museum, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species. No. 112. Govt. print. off., 1921.