Cataegis finkli

Cataegis finkli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cataegidae.

[1][2] Original description: "Shell very large for genus, wide, inflated, turbinate in shape; spire narrow in proportion to shell width, elevated; body whorl ornamented with 8 large, well-developed, raised cords; spire whorls ornamented with 3 cords; outer layer of shell rough-textured, light brown in color; inner layer of shell nacreous with nacre showing through thin areas on spire and early whorls; outer lip and aperture flaring; columella thickened, nacreous, partially covered with white shelly layer; interior of aperture nacreous, iridescent; columella with one small tooth.

Locus typicus: "Off Puerto Cabello, Golfo de Triste, Venezuela.

"[3] This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela and Colombia; in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida.

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