Angiola lineata

Angiola lineata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Planaxidae
Genus: Angiola
Species: A. lineata
Binomial name
Angiola lineata
(Da Costa, 1778)
Synonyms[1]
  • Angiola periscelida Dall, W.H., 1926
  • Buccinum lineatum da Costa, 1778 (original combination)
  • Buccinum pediculare Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822
  • Buccinum pygmaeum Tryon, G.W., 1887
  • Buccinum strigosum Gmelin, J.F., 1791
  • Buccinum undulatum Wood, W., 1828
  • Buccinum zebra Mühlfeldt, Megerle von, 1816
  • Hinea lineata (da Costa, 1778)
  • Planaxis eboreus Smith, E.A., 1872
  • Planaxis herrmaennseni Dunker, R.W., 1853
  • Planaxis herrmannseni Dunker, R.W., 1853
  • Planaxis lineatus (da Costa, 1778)
  • Planaxis longispira Smith, E.A., 1872
  • Planaxis succinctus Adams, A., 1853

Angiola lineata, common name the dwarf Atlantic planaxis, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Planaxidae.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the following locations:

  • Atlantic Ocean : Angola, Cape Verdes, West Africa, St. Helena
  • Gulf of Mexico
  • Caribbean Sea
  • Lesser Antilles,

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 10 mm.[2]

The very small shell is ovate, conical, smooth, and diaphanous. It is colored with white, elegantly ornamented upon its whole surface with pretty numerous, narrow, transverse lines, of a blackish brown. The spire is composed of six slightly convex whorls. The body whorl is inflated, and larger than all the others united. The linear suture is very fine. The aperture is subrounded, of violet color and within are perceived the external colored lines. The outer is lip simple, thin and sharp. Its edge is expanded and marked with brown lines. The columella is smooth and arcuated.[3]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.[2] Maximum recorded depth is 48 m.[2]

References

  • da Costa E. M. (1778). Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Britanniae, or, The British Conchology. London: Millan, White, Elmsley & Robson. xii + 254 + viii pp. 17 pls
  • Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates
  • Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp
  • Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda
  • Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
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