Bouchetispira

Bouchetispira vitrea
Shells of Bouchetispira vitrea (holotype in the MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Bouchetispiridae
Kantor, Strong & Puillandre, 2012[1]
Genus: Bouchetispira
Kantor, Strong & Puillandre, 2012[1]
Species: B. vitrea
Binomial name
Bouchetispira vitrea
Kantor, Strong & Puillandre, 2012[1]

Bouchetispira vitrea is a species of sea snail.[2] It is the only member of the genus Bouchetispira (the genus is thus monotypic), and the genus Bouchetispira is in turn the only genus in the family Bouchetispiridae (a monotypic family).[1] The scientific name of the family and the generic name is in honour of Philippe Bouchet, the French taxonomist and malacologist.[1]

Description

Bouchetispira vitrea has a thin, translucent shell up to 30 millimetres (1.2 in) long, with orthocline ribs.[1] The specific name vitrea is from the Latin word vitrum, which means "glass", referring to the translucent appearance of the shell.[1]

Distribution

The species was found on an isolated seamount off New Caledonia, and is probably the sole survivor of a larger clade.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Yuri I. Kantor; Ellen E. Strong & Nicolas Puillandre (2012). "A new lineage of Conoidea (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) revealed by morphological and molecular data". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 78 (3): 246–255. doi:10.1093/mollus/eys007.
  2. ↑ P. Bouchet (2015). Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. "Bouchetispira vitrea Kantor, Strong & Puillandre, 2012". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
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