Curtitoma violacea
Image of a shell of Curtitoma violacea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Curtitoma
Species:	C. violacea
Binomial name
Curtitoma violacea (Mighels & C.B Adams, 1842)
Synonyms[1]
Bela bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838) Bela bicarinata nodulosa Krause, 1885 Bela bicarinata var. geminolineata Friele, 1879 Bela minuscularia Locard, 1897 Bela violacea (Mighels & Adams, 1842) Bela violacea var. laevior Sars G.O., 1878 Bela violacea var. rufescens Sars G.O., 1878 Defrancia becki Møller, 1842 Defrancia cylindracea Møller, 1842 Oenopota bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838) Pleurotoma (Bela) violacea (Mighels & Adams, 1842) Pleurotoma bicarinata Couthouy, 1838 (non Wood, 1828) Pleurotoma violacea Mighels & Adams, 1842 (original combination)

Curtitoma violacea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 5.5 mm and 16 mm.

The shell is multicarinate, the interstices longitudinally striate. Its color is pale violaceous or whitish, sometimes indistinctly fasciated with a darker color above. The columella is one- or two-plaited. The outer lip is acute, crenulated, and has a slight sinus. The siphonal canal is short.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Eastern Canada to New York, USA;, off Greenland, Spitzbergen, arctic Norway and off France; in the Laptev Sea, Russia; in the Sea of Japan; found at depths between 6 m and 90 m.