Varicospira cancellata
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Rostellariidae |
| Genus: | Varicospira |
| Species: | V. cancellata
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| Binomial name | |
| Varicospira cancellata (Lamarck, 1816)
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Varicospira cancellata, common name the cancellated beak shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Rostellariidae, the true conchs.[1]
Description[edit]
the length of the shell attains 36 mm.
(Described as Rimella cancellata) The whorls are cancellated, occasionally varicose. The siphonal canal is produced upon the spire, which it ascends in a curved line. The interior of the outer lip is dentate. The color of the shell is pale yellowish brown, indistinctly banded with pale chestnut.
Distribution[edit]
This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific; also off India, in the Andaman Sea, Thailand and Myanmar, the Philippines, Indonesia; off Taiwan, the China Seas, Solomon Islands, off Papua New Guinea and Australia (Queensland, Western Australia)
References[edit]
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Varicospira cancellata (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531619 on 2023-01-23
- Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae
- Lamarck J.B. (1816). Liste des objets représentés dans les planches de cette livraison. In: Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la Nature. Mollusques et Polypes divers. Agasse, Paris. 16 pp.
- Cotton, B.C. 1953. No. 3. Strombidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 4pp. (as Rimella cancellata Lamarck, 1799); Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [160] (as Rimella cancellata Lamarck, 1816).
- Kreipl, K. & Poppe, G.T. 1999. A Conchological Iconography: The Family Strombidae. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 59 pp., 130 pls.
- Iredale, T., 1958. To memorize Lee. The Marine Zoologist 1(6):84-85) [in] Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales for 1956-1957
- Subba Rao, N.V. 1977. On collection of Strombidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea and western Indian Ocean - 2. Genera Lambis, Terebellum, Tibia and Rimella. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 19(1): 21-34
- Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
- Raven, H 2002. Notes on molluscs from NW Borneo. 1. Stromboidea (Gastropoda, Strombidae, Rostellariidae, Seraphidae). Vita Malacologica 1: 3-32
- Liverani V. (2014) The superfamily Stromboidea. Addenda and corrigenda. In: G.T. Poppe, K. Groh & C. Renker (eds), A conchological iconography. pp. 1–54, pls 131-164. Harxheim: Conchbooks.