Eulimella ventricosa

Eulimella ventricosa
Drawing of a shell of Eulimella ventricosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Eulimella
Species: E. ventricosa
Binomial name
Eulimella ventricosa
(Forbes, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
  • Eulima affinis Philippi, R.A., 1844
  • Eulimella gracilis Jeffreys, 1847
  • Eulimella obeliscus Jeffreys, 1858
  • Eulimella gracilis Jeffreys, J.G., 1869
  • Parthenia ventricosa Forbes, 1844
  • Pyramidella ventricosa (Forbes, 1844)

Eulimella ventricosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1][2][3][4]

Description

The shell is yellowish white with irregular light chestnut undulating longitudinal stripes, more or less intensified into revolving bands. The size of the shell varies between 1.9 mm and 6.2 mm. Compared to Eulimella acicula, the shell of Eulimella ventricosa is thinner, with tumid whorls and a deeper suture. The shell is slightly striated longitudinally, with the body whorl ventricose. The columella is triplicate.[5]

Distribution

This species occurs in the following locations [1] at depths between 65 m and 480 m:[6]

  • Atlantic Europe
  • Canary Islands
  • Cape Verdes
  • European waters (ERMS scope)
  • Greek Exclusive Economic Zone: Aegean Sea
  • Irish Exclusive economic Zone
  • Madagascar
  • Madeira
  • Mascarene Basin
  • Northwest Atlantic Ocean (from Iceland to Norway)
  • Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone
  • Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone
  • United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone

Notes

Additional information regarding this species:[1]

  • Taxonomic Remark: The name Pyramidella ventricosa or Eulimella ventricosa (type locality: eastern Mediterranean) has been misapplied to a western Atlantic species (for which, see Eulimella polita (A. E. Verrill, 1872)) and to an Indo-Pacific species, the identity of which is uncertain.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Gofas, S. (2011). Eulimella ventricosa (Forbes, 1844). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140958 on 2011-10-26
  2. ↑ de Kluijver, M.J.; Ingalsuo, S.S.; de Bruyne, R.H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom pp.
  3. ↑ Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
  4. ↑ Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
  5. ↑ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 299 and 340 (described as Pyramidella ventricosa); 1889
  6. ↑ J.J. van Aartsen, E. Gittenberger & J. Goud, Pyramidellidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) collected during the Dutch CANCAP and MAURITANIA expeditions in the south-eastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean (part 2)
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