Amalda pacei
Amalda pacei | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Ancillariidae |
Genus: | Amalda |
Species: | A. pacei |
Binomial name | |
Amalda pacei Petuch, 1987[1] | |
Synonyms[2] | |
Amalda zeigleri Ninomiya, 1987 |
Amalda pacei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ancillariidae.[2]
Description
[edit]Original description: "Shell stocky, heavy, fusiform in shape; spire elevated; main section of body whorl with silky texture; suture bounded by wide band of enamel along shoulder region; spire whorls comprising two distinct zones, lower one with same silky texture of main body whorl, upper one with shiny enameled texture; fascicular band well-developed, surrounding anterior end of shell; shell color pale salmon-orange on main section of body whorl and lower zone of spire; enameled sub-sutural shoulder and fascicular bands bright orange, marked with evenly-spaced, dark orange-brown flammules; columella white, with one large twisted plication; interior of aperture pale salmon-orange; protoconch pale salmon in color, rounded, dome-shaped; operculum large, oval, dark tan in color."[3]
Distribution
[edit]Locus typicus: "Off the Northern coast of Roatan Island, Honduras."[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Petuch, E.J. (1987) New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas. The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 154 pp.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
- ^ a b Amalda pacei Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
- ^ a b Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 69. Publ: CERF