Hindsiclava tippetti

Hindsiclava tippetti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:Hindsiclava
Species: H. tippetti
Binomial name
Hindsiclava tippetti
Petuch, 1987

Hindsiclava tippetti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 27 mm and 75 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Honduras.

References

  • Petuch, E.J. 1987. New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas.The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 154 pp.
  • B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Gastropods.com: Hindsiclava tippetti
  • Kabat, Alan R. "Donn Lloyd Tippett (January 14, 1924–January 29, 2014)." American Conchologist 42.2 (2014).


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