Diloma piperina
| Diloma piperina | |
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| Drawing with two views of a shell of Diloma piperina | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea (superfamily) |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Diloma |
| Species: | D. piperina |
| Binomial name | |
| Diloma piperina (Philippi, 1849) [1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Diloma piperina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2][3]
Description
The height of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 7.5 mm. The small, imperforate, thick, solid shell has a globose-conic shape. It is blackish, speckled and maculated all over with yellowish. The body whorl is spirally encircled by two narrow bands of black articulated with orange. The short spire is generally eroded more or less. The apex is acute or eroded. The 4 to 5 whorls are slightly convex, spirally finely striate, the striae often almost obsolete. The aperture is rounded. The acute outer lip is arcuate, thickened within, the nacre inside appearing finely lirate . The columella is short, oblique, not as wide as usual in this group, quite obviously bluntly toothed in the middle. [4]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Hawaii, Fiji and Taiwan.
References
- ↑ Philippi, Zeitschr. f. Mai, 1848, p. 111.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bouchet, P. (2012). Diloma piperina (Philippi, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=546862 on 2012-11-23
- ↑ Donald K.M., Kennedy M. & Spencer H.G. (2005) The phylogeny and taxonomy of austral monodontine topshells (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae), inferred from DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37: 474-483.
- ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Monodonta piperina)
External links
| External identifiers for Diloma piperina | |
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| Encyclopedia of Life | 4794571 |
| WoRMS | 546862 |