Pseudovertagus aluco
| Pseudovertagus aluco | |
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| Five views of a shell of Pseudovertagus aluco | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Cerithiidae |
| Genus: | Pseudovertagus |
| Subgenus: | Pseudovertagus |
| Species: | P. aluco |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudovertagus aluco (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pseudovertagus aluco, common name Aluco Vertagus or Cuming's Cerith, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae, the ceriths.[1][2]
Distribution
This species is present in the Indo-Pacific from the Eastern Africa to Philippines, and in Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia), the Samoan Islands and New Caledonia.[3][4]
Shell of Pseudovertagus aluco from Australia
Habitat
Pseudovertagus aluco can be found on sand-bars at the high tide level, on tidalflats, on clean sand and coralrubble. [5][6]
Description
Shell of Pseudovertagus aluco can reach a length of 45–95 millimetres (1.8–3.7 in).[3] This species possess high-spired shells with a small aperture and a few spiral rows of tubercles.
Behaviour
These sea snails usually extend their proboscis and foot deep into the sediments, rather than burrowing below the surface.[6]
References
- 1 2 Pseudovertagus aluco (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
- ↑ OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
- 1 2 Gastropods
- ↑ Sealife Base
- ↑ W. O. Cernohorsky THE TAXONOMY OF SOME INDO-PACIFIC MOLLUSCA WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum
- 1 2 Jenny Sa ¨ lgeback and Enrico Savazzi Constructional morphology of cerithiform gastropods
- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systemae naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differetiis, synonymis, locis.v. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii 824 pp.
- Born, I. von 1778. Index rerum naturalium Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis, pl. 1, Testacea. - Verzeichniss etc. Illust. Vindobonae. Vienna : J.P. Krauss xlii 458 pp.
- Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i-xviii, 757 pp.
- Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1854. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(IX-XV) pp. 257-484, pls 33-60.
- Sowerby, G.B. 1855. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847-899, pls 176-186.
- Kobelt, W. 1898. Die Gattung Cerithium Lam. 201-297, pls 37-47 in Küster, H.C., Martini, F.W. & Chemnitz, J.H. (eds). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1.
- Thiele, J. 1931. Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 2 pp. 377-778.
- Hirase, S. & Taki, I. 1951. A handbook of illustrated shells in natural colors from the Japanese Islands and adjacent territories. Tokyo : Bunkyokaku xxiv, 134 pp.
- Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian Shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp.
- Cernohorsky, W.O. 1972. The taxonomy of some Indo-Pacific Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 9: 195-204
- Houbrick, R.S. 1978. The family Cerithiidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part I. The genera Rhinoclavis, Pseudovertagus and Clavocerithium. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 1: 1-130
- Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
External links
Bibliography
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.
- Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.
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