Dactylastele duplicatum

Dactylastele duplicatum
Drawing of a shell of Dactylastele duplicatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Subfamily: Calliostomatinae
Genus: Dactylastele
Species: D. duplicatum
Binomial name
Dactylastele duplicatum
(A. Adams, 1851) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Calliostoma duplicatum A. Adams, 1851
  • Zizyphinus duplicatus A. Adams, 1851

Dactylastele duplicatum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.[2]

Description

The turreted-conic shell is imperforate. The whorls are convex. They are ornamented with granose cinguli, with two larger more prominent cinguli at the base of the shell. The interstices are longitudinally striate. A body whorl is subrounded, its base a little convex. It is sculptured with granose cinguli. The aperture is subrotund. The lip is lirate within. The columella terminates in a tubercle at its base.[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales.

References

  1. Adams, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 168
  2. 1 2 Dactylastele duplicatum (A. Adams, 1851).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  3. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Calliostoma duplicatum)

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