Buchema interstrigata

Buchema interstrigata
	Shell of Buchema interstrigata (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Horaiclavidae
Genus:	Buchema
Species:	B. interstrigata
Binomial name
	Buchema interstrigata; (E. A. Smith, 1882)
Synonyms
	Crassispira caribbaea (E.A. Smith, 1882); Drillia (Neodrillia) euphanes Melvill 1923; Pleurotoma (Crassispira) caribbaea Smith, E.A., 1882; Pleurotoma (Clavus) interstrigata E. A. Smith, 1882;

Buchema interstrigata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the acuminate pyramidal shell varies between 7 mm and 12 mm. The shell consists of 7½ whorls of which 1½ in the protoconch. Each of the longitudinal ribs may be said to be composed of four transverse nodules, and those on the body whorl are bifurcate from the middle downwards. The lirae on the body whorl below the four principal ones are only slightly interrupted in the interstices between the ribs. The aperture is whitish near the outer lip. The sinus is small. The siphonal canal is very short.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs from Panama to Eastern Brazil; also off the Virgin Islands; Saint Vincent, Martinique and Cuba.

References

^ ^a ^b Buchema interstrigata (Smith E. A., 1882). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
^ Smith, E.A. (1882) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, 10, 206–218

Maes, Virginia O., Observations on the Systematics and Biology of a Turrid Gastropod Assemblage in the British Virgin Islands; Bulletin of Marine Science, Volume 33, Number 2, April 1983, pp. 305-335 (31)

External links

[WoRMS-1] Buchema interstrigata (Smith E. A., 1882). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.

[2] Smith, E.A. (1882) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, 10, 206–218

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