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Strictispira redferni

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ7623630 ↗
Source-derived summary

Strictispira redferni is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 14.1 mm, its diameter 4.6 mm.

Distribution

S. redferni can be found in Caribbean Sea waters, ranging from the Bahamas to Jamaica; also off French Guiana.

References

External links

Tippett D.L. (2006). The genus Strictispira in the western Atlantic (Gastropoda: Conoidea). Malacologia. 48(1–2): 43–64.

Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota.

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This entry incorporates text from “Strictispira redferni” 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.