Retimohnia caelata

Retimohnia caelata
	Retimohnia caelata (Verrill & Smith, 1880) – Buccinidae – Mollusc shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Retimohniidae
Genus:	Retimohnia
Species:	R. caelata
Binomial name
	Retimohnia caelata; (A. E. Verrill & S. I. Smith, 1880)
Synonyms
	Colus caelatus (A. E. Verrill, 1880); Colus obesus (A. E. Verrill, 1884); Mohnia caelata (Verrill & S. I. Smith, 1880); Neptunea (Sipho) caelata Verrill, 1880; Neptunea obesus Verrill, A.E., 1884; Sipho caelatulus Verrill, 1884; Sipho caelatus (Verrill & Smith, 1880); Sipho caelatus var. hebes Verrill, 1884; Sipho hebes Verrill, 1884; Sipho obesus Verrill, 1884;

Retimohnia caelata, common name : the plump whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Retimohniidae, the true whelks and the like.^[1]

Description[edit]

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 27 mm

This speciesoccurs in European waters (Iceland) and in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean (from Massachusetts to North Carolina)

Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp

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