Otitoma kwandangensis
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Original image of a shell of Otitoma kwandangensis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Otitoma |
Species: | O. kwandangensis
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Binomial name | |
Otitoma kwandangensis (Schepman, 1913)
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Otitoma kwandangensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 8½ mm, its diameter 3 mm.
(Original description) The strong shell has an elongately fusiform shape. It ihas a rather dark, uniform reddish-brown color. It contains 8 whorls, of which 3 form a smooth, red-brown protoconch. The whorls of the teleoconch are slightly convex, strongly lirate below the suture, with at first 2, lower on 3 strong spiral lirae on each whorl, 14 in number on the body whorl and 2 faint ones below subsutural liration, more or less visible on upper whorls. The whorls are crossed by thick, rounded ribs, making the lirae slightly beaded, 9 in number on penultimate whorl, faint on last one, which has a very strong rib behind the peristome. Moreover the shell is crossed by conspicuous growth lines. The aperture is oblong and angular above. The peristome is rather thin, with a conspicuous sinus above, then protracted towards the middle. The columellar margin is concave above, straight below, with a strong layer of enamel, a tubercle above at the sinus. The interior of the aperture smooth, red-brown with a bluish tint in its depth. The siphonal canal is straight and rather narrow.[2]
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Indonesia.
External links
- Kilburn R.N. (2004) The identities of Otitoma and Antimitra (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conidae and Buccinidae). African Invertebrates, 45: 263-270
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
- Gastropods.com: Otitoma kwandangensis
References
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2017). Otitoma kwandangensis (Schepman, 1913). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565532 on 2017-10-23
- ^ Schepman, 1913. The prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition. Part IV -V - VI: Toxoglossa
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. (described as Drillia kwandangensis)