Cancellaria cooperii
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| Cancellaria cooperii | |
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| Apertural view of shell of Cancellaria cooperii Gabb, 1865 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Cancellaria |
| Species: | C. cooperii |
| Binomial name | |
| Cancellaria cooperii Gabb, 1865 | |
Cancellaria cooperii, common name Cooper's nutmeg, is a species of medium-sized to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
Description
[edit]This species attains a size of around 95 mm.
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Ecology
[edit]Life habits
[edit]This species is an ectoparasite that parasitizes the Pacific electric ray, Torpedo californica, and perhaps other benthic fishes.[2] Cooper's nutmeg is uncommonly found, offshore, on sandy substrate.
Known from depths 20 metres to 210 metres(prawn traps).
Distribution
[edit]This nutmeg snail occurs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey, California, to San Benito Island, in central Baja California, Mexico.
References
[edit]- ^ Cancellaria cooperii Gabb, 1865. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
- ^ J. B. O'Sullivan, R. R. McConnaughey, and M. E. Huber, A Blood-Sucking Snail: The Cooper's Nutmeg, Cancellaria cooperii Gabb, Parasitizes the California Electric Ray, Torpedo californica Ayres (1987), Biol. Bull. 172: 362–366
External links
[edit]- McLean, James H., 1978, Marine Shells of Southern California, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Museum, Science Series 24, Revised Edition, p 51.
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