Pyrene obtusa

Pyrene obtusa
Three shells of Pyrene obtusa (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Columbellidae
Subfamily: Atiliinae
Genus: Pyrene
Species: P. obtusa
Binomial name
Pyrene obtusa
(G.B. Sowerby I, 1832)
Synonyms[1]
  • Buccinum lacteum Kiener, 1834
  • Colombella uvania Duclos, P.L. 1840
  • Columbella funiculata Souverbie, M. & Montrouzier, R.P. 1865
  • Columbella obtusa G.B. Sowerby I, 1832 (basionym)
  • Columbella tringa var. tankervillei Hervier, 1899
  • Columbella zelina Duclos, 1835
  • Columbella zelina var. cylindra Hervier, 1899
  • Pyrene lactea (Kiener, 1834)
  • Pyrene obtusa curta Schmeltz, J.D.K. 1874.
  • Pyrene tankervillei (Hervier, 1899)

Pyrene obtusa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 11 mm and 18 mm

The small shell is pretty thin, ovate, conical and smooth. It is of a diaphanous white. The sutures are indistinctly apparent. The spire is composed of six convex whorls, ornamented at their base with spots of a duller white. The body whorl is as large as all the others, striated at base, and surrounded, towards the middle, with small, distant spots, articulated by a reddish line. The aperture is ovate. The outer lip denticulated within, and thickened outwardly, even to the base of the shell. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off East Africa and Mauritius and Réunion and in the Indo-West Pacific; off Australia (Queensland)

References

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