Notocochlis gualteriana
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Naticidae |
| Genus: | Notocochlis |
| Species: | N. gualteriana |
| Binomial name | |
| Notocochlis gualteriana Récluz, 1844 | |
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Notocochlis gualteriana, common name the comma necklace shell, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1]
Description
The shell is moderately small, 8–25 mm in height, solid, with a moderately elevated spire that is sculptured with axial growth striae and radial ribs at the sutures. It is white in colour and variously maculated with grey or brown, straight or curved streaks, which are generally arranged in two to three spiral zones on the body whorl; in some specimens the shell is dark greyish brown, with the streaks becoming confluent.
The aperture is semi-ovate and is maculated with brown within. The funicle is prominent and variable in thickness, axially elongate or rounded, and either extends vertically into the umbilicus or winds sideways; the umbilicus is open or only partly covered. The periostracum is thin, brown, and moderately translucent.
The operculum is calcareous, white, and bears a single marginal rib. The rachidian tooth of the radula (Fig. 21) is tricuspid, with two basal cusps mounted on a shield; the lateral tooth has seven cusps, the inner marginal tooth is bifid, and the outer marginal tooth is simple.[2]
Distribution
This species occurs in European waters, the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, the Masacarene Basin, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa, and off the Philippines, China, South Korea and New Zealand.
References
- 1 2 Notocochlis gualteriana Récluz, 1844. Gofas, S. (2009). Notocochlis gualteriana Récluz, 1844. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=370551 on 17 June 2010 .
- ↑ Cernohorsky, W.O. (1971). "The Family Naticidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Fiji islands". Records of the Auckland Museum. 6: 180+. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
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- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
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