Hemilienardia rubicunda
| Hemilienardia rubicunda | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Shells of Hemilienardia rubicunda | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Hemilienardia |
| Species: | H. rubicunda |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemilienardia rubicunda (Gould, 1860) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| |
Hemilienardia rubicunda is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 2 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is small, thick, and ovately turreted. It is pale rose-coloured and ornamented with paler threads, which are separated by darker lines, together with a lighter subsutural band. The shell comprises six inflated whorls that increase rapidly in size and are latticed by ten undulations crossed by transverse threads; the penultimate whorl bears six such threads. The aperture is short and narrow. The outer lip is thickened and bears denticles internally. The sinus is narrow and deep, the columella is flexuous, and the siphonal canal is short. [2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Philippines and in the Red Sea and the Central and West Pacific.
References
- 1 2 MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Hemilienardia rubicunda (Gould, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=980561 on 2019-07-03
- ↑ Gould, A. A. "Descriptions of new shells collected by the United States north Pacific exploring expedition." Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. 7. 1860.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Wiedrick S.G. (2017). Aberrant geomorphological affinities in four conoidean gastropod genera, Clathurella Carpenter, 1857 (Clathurellidae), Lienardia Jousseaume, 1884 (Clathurellidae), Etrema Hedley, 1918 (Clathurellidae) and Hemilienardia Boettger, 1895 (Raphitomidae), with the descriptionof fourteen new Hemilienardia species from the Indo-Pacific. The Festivus. special issue: 2-45.
External links
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- MNHN, Paris: specimen
- Smith, Barry D. "Prosobranch gastropods of Guam." Micronesica 35.36 (2003): 244-270
- TRÖNDLÉ, J. E. A. N.; BOUTET, Michel. Inventory of marine molluscs of French Polynesia. Atoll Research Bulletin, 2009