Aguilaria
| Aguilaria | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Aguilaria J. D. Taylor & Wells, 1994 |
| Species: | A. subochracea
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| Binomial name | |
| Aguilaria subochracea (Smith E. A., 1877)
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Aguilaria subochracea is a species of sea snailin the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1] It is the only species in the genus Aguilaria.[1]
Description[edit]
The length of the shell attains 39 mm, its diameter 11 mm.
The elongate, fusiform, turreted shell is distinctively colored. Its uniform reddish-ochre hue is interrupted by white, slightly nodulous transverse lirations — five in the penultimate whorl and about 22 in the body whorl — where they intersect the ribs or plications, which number 14 in the body whorl. The suture is sharply defined by the abrupt termination of the ribs. The shell comprises 13 convex whorls that are set back at the top. The aperture is flesh-colored, ovate at the top, and concludes in a moderately elongated, recurved siphonal canal, measuring about 3/7 of the total shell length. The outer lip is somewhat thickened and sinuate in the excavation, while the columella is twisted, callous, and displays a small tubercle at the top. [2]
Distribution[edit]
This species occurs in the "China seas" and off the Philippines and Vanuatu.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Aguilaria J. D. Taylor & Wells, 1994. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578134 on 2020-07-23
- ^ Smith, E.A. (1877). "Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4 (19): 488–501.
- Taylor J.D. & Wells F.E. (1994). A revision of the crassispirine gastropods from Hong Kong (Gastropoda: Turridae). In: B. Morton (ed.) The malacofauna of Hong Kong and southern China III . Proceedings of the Third International workshop on the malacofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China. 101–116
- Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
- Li B.Q., Kilburn R.N., & Li X.Z. (2010). Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas. Journal of Natural History. 44, 699–740
External links[edit]
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273–308
- "Inquisitor subochracea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- Specimen at MNHN, Paris
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