Cooper's nutmeg

Cooper's nutmeg
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cancellarioidea
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Cancellaria
Species:	C. reticulata
Binomial name
Cancellaria cooperi Gabb, 1865

Cooper's nutmeg, scientific name Cancellaria cooperi, is a species of medium-sized to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Ecology

Life habits

This species is an ectoparasite that parasitizes the Pacific electric ray, Torpedo californica, and perhaps other benthic fishes.

It is uncommonly found, offshore, on sandy substrate.

Distribution

This nutmeg snail occurs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey, California to San Benito Island, in central Baja California, Mexico.

References

• McLean, James H., 1978 ‘’Marine Shells of Southern California’’, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Museum, Science Series 24, Revised Edition, p 51.
• A pdf of the 1987 paper in the Biological Bulletin, reporting the parasitic behavior

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