Bolma guttata

Bolma guttata
Drawing of a shell of Bolma guttata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Bolma
Species: B. guttata
Binomial name
Bolma guttata
(A. Adams, 1863)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bolma guttata guttata (A. Adams, 1863)
  • Modelia guttata A. Adams, 1863
  • Turbo amabilis Ozaki, 1954
  • Turbo guttata (A. Adams, 1863)

Bolma guttata, common name the sandpaper bolma, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1][2][3]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 35 mm and 45 mm. The turbinate-conic shell has an umbilicus covered by callus. The spire is elevated. Its color pattern is flesh-colored, gold-tinted, and punctate with reddish. The deep sutures are canaliculate. The convex whorls are cingulate with rows of bead-like separated granules. The interstices are longitudinally obliquely striate. At the suture they are ornamented with a series of squamiform tubercles. The circular aperture is sulcate within, a thin wide callus covering the umbilicus. [4]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan, the Philippines and Queensland, Australia.

References

  1. 1 2 Gofas, S. (2012). Bolma guttata (A. Adams, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555218 on 2012-09-01
  2. ↑ Beu A.G. & Ponder W.F. (1979) A revision of the species of Bolma Risso, 1826 (Gastropoda: Turbinidae). Records of the Australian Museum 32(1): 1-68. (31 May 1979)
  3. ↑ Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1-82, pls 104-245.
  4. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

External links

External identifiers for Bolma guttata
Encyclopedia of Life 4799746
NCBI 216127
WoRMS 555218
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