Otitoma carnicolor

Otitoma carnicolor
	Otitoma carnicolor (specimen in MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Otitoma
Species:	O. carnicolor
Binomial name
	Otitoma carnicolor; (Hervier, 1896)
Synonyms
	Drillia carnicolor Hervier, 1896 (original combination); Thelecytharella carnicolor (Hervier, 1896); Turris (Inquisitor) carnicola (Hervier, 1896);

Otitoma carnicolor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 8 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The landeolate shell is small, and stout, and is orange‑flesh in colour. It has six whorls, of which one and a half are embryonic; the apex is mamillate, smooth, and shining. The whorls are convex and are somewhat compressed by a rather thick suture. They are sculptured with slightly oblique longitudinal folds, which are crossed in a wavy fashion by elevated spiral striae. On the body whorl the folds fade out below the midline, while the spiral striae run obliquely down toward the base and there become stronger.

The aperture is narrow and elliptical, smooth within and of the same colour as the exterior. The columella is only slightly arched and passes obliquely into a very short siphonal canal; its upper part is tuberculate. The outer lip is thickened over the last, stronger costal fold and projects into the aperture, being moderately sharp at the edge. The sinus lies just below the suture, is obliquely open, somewhat rounded, and whitish. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia.

References

1 2 MolluscaBase (2018). Otitoma carnicolor (Hervier, 1896). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565527 on 2018-08-19
↑ Hervier J. (1896 ["1895"]). Descriptions d’espèces nouvelles de l’Archipel Néo-Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie. 43(3): 141-152 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Wiedrick S.G. (2014). Review of the genera Otitoma Jousseaume, 1880 and Thelecytharella with the description of two new species Gastropoda: Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae) from the southwest Pacific Ocean. The Festivus. 46(3): 40-53
Fischer-Piette, E., 1950. Liste des types décrits dans le Journal de Conchyliologie et conservés dans la collection de ce journal (avec planches)(suite). Journal de Conchyliologie 90: 149-180

External links

[WoRMS-1] 1 2 MolluscaBase (2018). Otitoma carnicolor (Hervier, 1896). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565527 on 2018-08-19

[2] Hervier J. (1896 ["1895"]). Descriptions d’espèces nouvelles de l’Archipel Néo-Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie. 43(3): 141-152 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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