Pseudostomatella baconi
| Pseudostomatella baconi | |
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| Drawing with two views of a shell of Pseudostomatella baconi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Pseudostomatella |
| Species: | P. baconi |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudostomatella baconi (Adams, A. in Adams, H.G. & A. Adams, 1854) [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Stomatella baconi A. Adams, 1850 | |
Pseudostomatella baconi is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]
Description
The subturbinate shell has an oval-orbicular shape. The spire is produced, the apex acute. The whorls are concave above. The color is dull white, variegated with reddish brown. The shell is transversely spirally sulcate, the interstices longitudinally striated. The aperture is sulcate within. The white, inner lip is a little thickened, reflexed, and concentrically striate. [3]
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Western Australia.
References
- ↑ A. Adams., P. Z. S. 1853, p. 73; in Sowb., Thes. Conch, ii, p. 838, t. 174, f. 25, 26
- ↑ Marshall, B. (2013). Pseudostomatella baconi (A. Adams, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=720371 on 2014-03-26
- ↑ G.W. Tryon (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
- Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1854. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1 pp. 257-484
- Adams, A. 1854. Monograph of Stomatellinae. A sub-family of Trochidae. 827-846, pls 173-175 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Thesaurus Conchyliorum. London : Sowerby Vol.
- Hedley, C. 1916. A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1: 152-226
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