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Triptychus niveus
Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Triptychus niveus is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[2][3]
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Description
The shell grows to a length of 9.5 mm. The white shell is slender. The whorls of the teleoconch are flattened, each with three spiral ribs, the two upper ones nodulous. The body whorl has two plain ribs below the nodulous ones, and three revolving ridges below the periphery, forming columellar folds. The aperture is produced below.[4]
Distribution
This species occurs in the following locations:[2]
- Aruba
- Belize
- Bonaire
- Caribbean Sea
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Gulf of Mexico
- Lesser Antilles
- Mexico
- Panama
- Puerto Rico
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