This name was given by its discoverer, the American malacologist Dwight Taylor, who said the name was a loose translation of his "original remarks at seeing the shells," which are surprisingly similar to those of a predominantly marine family, the wentletraps or Epitoniidae.
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Its specific name is from a Spanish exclamation expressing surprise: "caramba".
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