Priotrochus goudoti
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| Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Priotrochus goudoti | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea (superfamily) |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Priotrochus |
| Species: | P. goudoti |
| Binomial name | |
| Priotrochus goudoti (Fischer, 1878) [1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Priotrochus goudoti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]
Description
The height of the shell attains 9 mm, its diameter 6 mm. The small, imperforate, thick shell has a conoid-elongated shape. It is whitish-ashen, punctate with rose-color, maculate with spadiceous. The 6 to 7 whorls 6 are convex. They are spirally cingulate, the penultimate whorls with 8 cinguli. The body whorl is elongated, rounded in the middle, appressed below the suture, convex beneath. The aperture is ovate-subquadrate. The lip is crenulated. The columella is arcuate and delicately crenulated.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, the Comores,and the Mascarene Basin.
References
- ↑ Fischer, Journ. de Conchyl. 1878, p. 62
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 WoRMS (2011). Priotrochus goudoti (Fischer, 1878). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567726 on 2012-06-22
- ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Monilea (Priotrochus) goudoti)
- Herbert D.G. (1988). Studies on Priotrochus obscurus and the systematics position of Priotrochus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of zoology 214:561-268
- Herbert D.G. (1994). Trochus kotschyi, the first Indian Ocean record of the genus Osilinus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Zoology 233:345-357.
- Herbert D.G. (1994). Notes on synonymy within the genus Priotrochus Fischer, 1879 (Prosobranchia: Trochidae). Annals of the Natal Museum 35:139-151