Kryptos koehleri
Shell of Kryptos koehleri (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Colidae
Genus:	Kryptos
Species:	K. koehleri
Binomial name
Kryptos koehleri (Locard, 1896)
Synonyms
Kryptos elegans Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896 Pleurotomella atlantica Locard, 1897 Pleurotomella demulcata Locard, 1897 Pleurotomella koehleri Locard, 1896

Kryptos koehleri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colidae, the true whelks and the like.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 20 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the North Atlantic Ocean (Bay of Biscay, Morocco, Azores)

References

• Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico Suppl. 1: 121–296
• Sysoev A.V. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Gastropoda. Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.11. No.1: 134–155

External links

• Locard A. (1896) Mollusques testacés et brachiopodes, pp. 129-242, pl. 5-6, in: Koehler R. (1896) Résultats scientifiques de le campagne du "Caudan" dans le Golfe de Gascogne. Annales de l'Université de Lyon, 26.
• Dautzenberg, P. & Fischer, H. (1896). Dragages effectués par l'Hirondelle et par la Princesse Alice 1888-1895. 1. Mollusques Gastéropodes. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France. 9: 395-498, pl. 15-22
• Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER,José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114
• "Kryptos koehleri". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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