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This species a gastropod and is part of Mullusca and was found along the coast of southern San Diego on February 25th 2017. It is about 43 millimeters long and 21 millimeters wide (Packard 1918). The shell has dextral coiling and has six whorls with a course brown fibrous epidermis. It has a planktonic larval stage and usually participates in mass spawning where they release sperm and eggs into the water (Jablonski et al. 1983). The shells have a strong structure that helps protect against predation and has narrow or occluded apertures, low spires, thickened shells and strong shell sculpture (Bertness et al 1981).

References

  • Bertness, Mark D., Stephen D. Garrity, and Sally C. Levings. "Predation pressure and gastropod foraging: a tropical-temperate comparison." Evolution (1981): 995-1007.
  • Jablonski, David, and Richard A. Lutz. "Larval ecology of marine benthic invertebrates: paleobiological implications." Biological Reviews 58.1 (1983): 21-89.
  • Packard, Earl Leroy. Molluscan fauna from San Francisco Bay. Vol. 14. University of California press, 1918.

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This species a gastropod and is part of Mullusca and was found along the coast of southern San Diego on February 25th 2017. It is about 43 millimeters long and 21 millimeters wide (Packard 1918). The shell has dextral coiling and has six whorls with a course brown fibrous epidermis. It has a planktonic larval stage and usually participates in mass spawning where they release sperm and eggs into the water (Jablonski et al. 1983). The shells have a strong structure that helps protect against predation and has narrow or occluded apertures, low spires, thickened shells and strong shell sculpture (Bertness et al 1981).

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Cancellaria crawfordiana brief summary

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This species a gastropod and is part of Mullusca and was found along the coast of southern San Diego on February 25th 2017. It is about 43 millimeters long and 21 millimeters wide (Packard 1918). The shell has dextral coiling and has six whorls with a course brown fibrous epidermis. It has a planktonic larval stage and usually participates in mass spawning where they release sperm and eggs into the water (Jablonski et al. 1983). The shells have a strong structure that helps protect against predation and has narrow or occluded apertures, low spires, thickened shells and strong shell sculpture (Bertness et al 1981).

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Cancellaria crawfordiana

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Cancellaria crawfordiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

Description

Distribution

References

  • McLean J.H. (1996). The Prosobranchia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 1–160

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Cancellaria crawfordiana: Brief Summary

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Cancellaria crawfordiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

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