Priotrochus kotschyi

Priotrochus kotschyi
Drawing with three views of a shell of Priotrochus kotschyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Priotrochus
Species: P. kotschyi
Binomial name
Priotrochus kotschyi
(Philippi, 1849) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Cantharidus kotschyi (Philippi, 1849)
  • Osilinus kotschyi (Philippi, 1849)
  • Trochus kotschyi Philippi, 1849 (original description)

Priotrochus kotschyi, common name the Kotschy's gibbula, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2][3][4]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 18 mm and 30 mm. The narrowly perforated shell has a conoidal shape. It is whitish-ashen, ornamented with undulating, oblique, radiating chestnut or blackish stripes. The spire is acute. The shell contains 7 whorls. The first whorl is eroded, the remainder are angulated and nodulose above. Above the carina the shell is obliquely nodulose, below the carina spirally lirate with 4 lirae. The body whorl is biangular, convex beneath, and has 7 concentric brown-spotted lirae. The aperture is subquadrate. The white columella is arcuate, sinuous, and below strongly truncate-dentate.[5]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Persian Gulf and in the northwest Indian Ocean.

References

  1. ↑ Philippi, Zeitschr. f Mal., 1848, p. 127
  2. 1 2 Gofas, S. (2012). Priotrochus kotschyi (Philippi, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=573057 on 2012-11-23
  3. ↑ Herbert D.G. (1994). Trochus kotschyi, the first Indian Ocean record of the genus Osilinus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Zoology 233:345-357.
  4. ↑ Donald K.M., Preston J., Williams S.T., Reid D.R., Winter D., Alvarez R., Buge B., Hawkins S.J., Templado J. & Spencer H.G. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships elucidate colonization patterns in the intertidal grazers Osilinus Philippi, 1847 and Phorcus Risso, 1826 (Gastropoda: Trochidae) in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 62(1): 35–45
  5. ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Cantharidus kotschyi)
External identifiers for Priotrochus kotschyi
WoRMS 573057
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