Aforia staminea
| Aforia staminea | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Cochlespiridae |
| Genus: | Aforia |
| Species: | A. staminea |
| Binomial name | |
| Aforia staminea (Watson, 1881) [1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Pleurotoma staminea Watson, 1881 | |
Aforia staminea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae.[2][3]
Description
The high, narrow, shell grows to a length of 35 mm. This thin shell is translucent white. It is biconically fusiform, scalar and carinated with spiral threads. The sculpture of the shell shows coarse, sinous, irregular growth lines. Above the middle of each whorl, there is a strong carination that projects slightly. The body whorl shows a tendency to a second carination. The whole surface is covered with unequal and irregular threads as well as by somewhat broken microscopic lines.[4]
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Southern Indian Ocean and along the Kerguelen Islands and Prince Edward Island
References
- ↑ Watson (1881). Jour. Linn. Soc., xv, p.388
- 1 2 Aforia staminea (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
- ↑ P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
- ↑ Robert Boog Watson B.A., F.R.S.E., F.L.S, Mollusca of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ Expedition.—Part VIII; Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, Volume 15, Issue 87, pages 388–412, October 1881 (described as Pleurotoma (Surcula) staminea)
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