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Cantrainea peloritana

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Cantrainea peloritana
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Family: Colloniidae
Genus: Cantrainea
Species:
C. peloritana
Binomial name
Cantrainea peloritana
(Cantraine, 1835)
Synonyms [1]

Turbo peloritanus Cantraine, 1835

Cantrainea peloritana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Colloniidae. [1]

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Description

The height of the shell varies between 5 mm and 20 mm.

Cantrainea peloritana lives in the bathyal zone at depths between 545m and 1300m. In the Mediterranean it lives on white coral and in the Atlantic it lives on sand or gravel. [2]

It feeds by eating detritus and grazing. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Bay of Biscayne and in the Mediterranean Sea.

References

  1. 1 2 Cantrainea peloritana (Cantraine, 1835) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 September 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Cantrainea peloritana". www.idscaro.net. Retrieved 9 October 2022.


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