Austrocochlea zeus

Austrocochlea zeus
Drawing with three views of a shell of Austrocochlea zeus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Austrocochlea
Species: A. zeus
Binomial name
Austrocochlea zeus
(P. Fischer, 1874) [1]
Synonyms
  • Austrocochlea (Chlorodiloma) zeus (P. Fischer, 1874)
  • Chrysostoma zeus (P. Fischer, 1874)
  • Trochus zeus P; Fischer, 1874

Austrocochlea zeus, common name the dory austrocochlea, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2][3]

Description

The height of the shell attains 16 mm, its diameter 19 mm. The thick, obtuse shell is imperforate. The apex is short, papillose and yellowish. The suture is impressed. The 4 to 5 whorls are moderately convex. They are obliquely striate and spirally sulcate. The body whorl is ample, rounded, obsoletely angulated above and marginated at the suture. It is white, with radiating flexuous red lines. The base of the shell is convex. The aperture is circular. The columella is subdentate at its base. The thick columellar callousis whitish-green. The outer lip is thick.[4]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Western Australia.

References

  1. Fischer, P. 1874. Diagnoses specierum novarum. Journal de Conchyliologie 22: 372-374
  2. Bouchet, P. (2012). Austrocochlea zeus P. Fischer, 1874. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=546943 on 2012-11-23
  3. Donald K.M., Kennedy M. & Spencer H.G. (2005) The phylogeny and taxonomy of austral monodontine topshells (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae), inferred from DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37: 474-483.
  4. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Monodonta (Austrocochlea) zeus)

External links

External identifiers for Austrocochlea zeus
Encyclopedia of Life 4796545
WoRMS 546943
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