- Source: Cidarina cidaris
Cidarina cidaris, common name Adam's spiny margarite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eucyclidae.
Description
The height of the gray to grayish white shell attains 20 mm.
(Original description in Latin by Carpenter) "Testa magna, conica, Turcicoidea, tenui ; albido-cinerea, nacreo-argentata ; anfr. nucleosis —? (decollatis), norm, vii, subplanatis, suturis alte insculptis ; superficie spirae tota valide tuberculosa, seriebus tribus, alteris postea intercalantibus; peripheria et basi rotundatis, carinatis; carinis circ. 8, haud acutis, irregularibus, scabris, haud tuberculosis; lacuna umbilicali vix conspicua ; apertura subrotundata ; labro tenuissimo; labio obsoleto ; columella arcuata. "
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California.
References
Carpenter (1864), Ann. and Mag. N. H. xiv (3d ser.), p. 426.
External links
Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
Encyclopedia of Life
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
ITIS
World Register of Marine Species
"Cidarina cidaris". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.