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Cryoturris edithae

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ13502117 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cryoturris edithae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.6 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela and the Grenadines.

References

Nowell-Usticke, G. W. "A supplementary listing of new shells (illustrated), revised edition, to be added to the check list of the marine shells of St. Croix." (1971).

External links

"Cryoturris edithae". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295.

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“Cryoturris edithae” enters the record as species of mollusc. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cryoturris, edithae and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 2019, 2004, 1295—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cryoturris, edithae and species.
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Evidence profile

The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13502117. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1971, 2019, 2004 and 1295.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cryoturris edithae” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.