Clanculus largillierti

Clanculus largillierti
Drawing showing a shell of Clanculus largillierti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Clanculus
Species: C. largillierti
Binomial name
Clanculus largillierti
(Philippi, 1849) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Clanculus (Clanculus) largillierti (Philippi, 1849)
  • Trochus largillierti Philippi, 1849

Clanculus largillierti 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 14 mm, its diameter 16 mm. The perforate shell has a conoid shape with an acute apex and 6½ whorls.,The first whorl is rosy, the following whorls convex, grayish, spotted with white and black at the narrow sutures. They are spirally lirate with numerous granulose lirae, 8 to 10 on the penultimate whorl. The body whorl is rounded, concentrically lirate beneath with 8 to 10 lirae, gray and brown articulated. The oblique aperture is rhomboidal. The lip is dentate above. The basal margin is plicate. The oblique columella is dentate at its base. The parietal callus is wrinkled. The umbilicus is bordered by strong white plicae. [4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Réunion.

References

  1. ↑ Philippi, Zeitschr. f. Mal. 1848, p. 109
  2. 1 2 WoRMS (2012). Clanculus largillierti (Philippi, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567725 on 2012-11-23
  3. ↑ Herbert D.G. (1993). Clanculus largillierti (Philippi, 1849) rediscovered in the Mascarene Islands (Gastropoda: Trochidae). Annals of the Natal Museum 34(2):309-316.
  4. ↑ H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Trochus largillierti)

External links

External identifiers for Clanculus largillierti
WoRMS 567725
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