Cyclostrema tortuganum

Cyclostrema tortuganum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Genus: Cyclostrema
Species: C. tortuganum
Binomial name
Cyclostrema tortuganum
(Dall, 1927)
Synonyms

Liotia (Lippistes) tortugana Dall, 1927

Cyclostrema tortuganum, common name the Tortugas cyclostreme, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 4 mm and 10 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs off in the Gulf of Mexico (East Florida, Cuba), the West Indies (the Dry Tortugas, Virgin Islands: St. Croix), the Caribbean Sea (Colombia, Venezuela) and the Atlantic Ocean (Bahamas, Brazil).

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