Ceritoturris pupiformis

Ceritoturris pupiformis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.^[1]

Ceritoturris pupiformis
Shell of Ceritoturris pupiformis (specimen at Natural History Museum, London)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Horaiclavidae
Genus:	Ceritoturris
Species:	C. pupiformis
Binomial name
Ceritoturris pupiformis (E. A. Smith, 1884)
Synonyms[1]
Mangelia pupiformis (E. A. Smith, 1884) Mangilia callistephana Melvill, 1904 Pleurotoma (Drillia) pupiformis E. A. Smith, 1884 (original combination)

Description

The length of shell attains 4⅓ mm, its diameter 1⅓ mm.

The shell is oblong, narrow and almost pupiform. Its color is white and slightly red at the apex. It contains 8 whorls of which two in the protoconch. The whorls increase but slowly and the last three are of nearly the same width. They are divided at the suture by a fine keel, and a double series of largish and rather acute tubercles surround the middle. The small aperture measures about ⅓ the total length of the shell. The outer lip is thin. The siphonal canal is very short and narrow.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman and in the Persian Gulf .