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Autor: Tunnell et al.
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McGinty's Cyphoma
Distribution: North Carolina to Florida, Texas; Bahamas; Bermuda. Size: 19 to 57 mm
Description: Color glossy white and polished, aperture cameo pink; shape pyriform, elongate, and cylindrical; sculpture smooth with a pronounced transverse ridge located almost centrally on dorsal surface of shell; aperture narrow, as long as shell; outer apertural lip curved and thickened; columella thick, somewhat straight and bowed at both ends; mantle of living snails with numerous solid spots, which are roundish or in short bars. Habitat: Lives on searods, sea pansies, and branched whip coral {Eugorgia virgulata). Depth range 1 to 96 m (3 to 315 ft).
Remarks: C mcgintyi in Andrews (1971) is Pseudocyphoma intermedium (Sowerby I, 1828). See Cate (1973); Boone (1983).
Distribution: North Carolina to Florida, Texas; Bahamas; Bermuda. Size: 19 to 57 mm
Description: Color glossy white and polished, aperture cameo pink; shape pyriform, elongate, and cylindrical; sculpture smooth with a pronounced transverse ridge located almost centrally on dorsal surface of shell; aperture narrow, as long as shell; outer apertural lip curved and thickened; columella thick, somewhat straight and bowed at both ends; mantle of living snails with numerous solid spots, which are roundish or in short bars. Habitat: Lives on searods, sea pansies, and branched whip coral {Eugorgia virgulata). Depth range 1 to 96 m (3 to 315 ft).
Remarks: C mcgintyi in Andrews (1971) is Pseudocyphoma intermedium (Sowerby I, 1828). See Cate (1973); Boone (1983).
Tunnell, J.W. , Andrews, J. , Barrera, N.C. & Moretzsohn, F., 2010. Encyclopedia of Texas seashells.
Autor: Jan Delsing