Pseudostomatella baconi
| Pseudostomatella baconi | |
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| Drawing with two views of a shell of Pseudostomatella baconi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea (superfamily) |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Pseudostomatella |
| Species: | P. baconi |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudostomatella baconi (Adams, A. in Adams, H.G. & A. Adams, 1854) [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Stomatella baconi A. Adams, 1850 | |
Pseudostomatella baconi is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]
Description
The subturbinate shell has an oval-orbicular shape. The spire is produced, the apex acute. The whorls are concave above. The color is dull white, variegated with reddish-brown. The shell is transversely spirally sulcate, the interstices longitudinally striated. The aperture is sulcate within. The white, inner lip is a little thickened,reflexed, and concentrically striate. [3]
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Western Australia.
References
- ↑ . A. Adams., P. Z. S. 1853, p. 73; in Sowb., Thes. Conch, ii, p. 838, t. 174, f. 25, 26
- ↑ Marshall, B. (2013). Pseudostomatella baconi (A. Adams, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=720371 on 2014-03-26
- ↑ G.W. Tryon (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
- Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1854. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1 pp. 257-484
- Adams, A. 1854. Monograph of Stomatellinae. A sub-family of Trochidae. 827-846, pls 173-175 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Thesaurus Conchyliorum. London : Sowerby Vol.
- Hedley, C. 1916. A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1: 152-226
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