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Pseudostomatella baconi
Drawing with two views of a shell of Pseudostomatella baconi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Stomatellinae
Genus: Pseudostomatella
Species:
P. baconi
Binomial name
Pseudostomatella baconi
(Adams, A. in Adams, H.G. & A. Adams, 1854) [1]
Synonyms

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

  1. ^ A. Adams., P. Z. S. 1853, p. 73; in Sowb., Thes. Conch, ii, p. 838, t. 174, f. 25, 26
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ 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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