Carinodrillia alboangulata

Carinodrillia alboangulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:Carinodrillia
Species: C. alboangulata
Binomial name
Carinodrillia alboangulata
(Smith E. A., 1882)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma (Clavus) alboangulata Smith E. A., 1882

Carinodrillia alboangulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 20 mm, its diameter 7 mm.

This ovate-fusiform species contains 9 whorls. It is very remarkably coloured. The seven white stripes radiating from the apex down the blunt, continuous ribs as far as the middle of the body whorl contrast very markedly with the deep-brown ground-colour of the shell. The aperture is rather small, measuring 2/5 of the total length of the shell. Its interior is reddish purple. The rather narrow siphonal canal is very short. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Panama.

References

  1. 1 2 Carinodrillia alboangulata (Smith E. A., 1882).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Smith, E.A. (1882) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, 10, 206–218 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Gastropods.com: Carinodrillia alboangulata
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