|
Astele
''Astele'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Calliostomatidae. Some authors use ''Astele'' Swainson, 1855 as a subgenus in ''Calliostoma'' Swainson, 1840 and in ''Astele'' Swainson, 1855 Species Species within the genus ''Astele'' include: * '' Astele allanae'' (Iredale, 1930) * '' Astele armillata'' (Wood, 1828) * †'' Astele boileaui'' Marwick, 1931 * '' Astele bularra'' Garrard, 1961 * '' Astele ciliaris'' (Menke, 1843) * '' Astele monile'' (Reeve, 1863) * '' Astele multigrana'' (Dunker, 1871) * '' Astele pulcherrima'' (Sowerby III, 1914) * '' Astele punctocostata'' (A. Adams, 1853) * ''Astele rubiginosa ''Astele rubiginosa'' is a species of sea snail, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Calliostomatidae.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Astele rubiginosa'' (Valenciennes, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...'' (Valenciennes, 1846) * '' Astele scitula'' (A. Adams, 1854) * '' Astele similaris'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astele Similaris
''Astele similaris'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Astele similaris'' (Reeve, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. Content The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scientific specialist ... at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467149 on 2012-12-07 Description The height of the shell varies between 22 mm and 35 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Central Indo-West Pacific. Notes Additional information regarding this species: * Taxonomic remark: Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus Astele (Astele) References External links To Encyclopedia of LifeTo World Register of Marine Species* similaris Gastropods described in 1863 {{Calliostomatidae-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astele Monile
''Astele monile'', common name the Australian necklace, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae. Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus ''Astele (Astele)'' Description The size of the shell varies between 15 mm and 25 mm. The shell has an erectly conical shape but is rather swollen at the base. It is transparent white, encircled by a necklace of violet spots. The whorls are concavely sloping, spirally ridged. These ridges are smooth with the two basal ridges more prominent. The necklace of violet spots has an exceedingly pretty appearance on the delicate transparent ground of the shell. (described as ''Calliostoma monile'') ...
|
Astele Scitula
''Astele scitula'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Astele scitula'' (A. Adams, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467148 on 2012-12-07 Notes Additional information regarding this species: * Taxonomic remark: Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus ''Astele (Astelena)'' Description The height of the shell attains 15 mm. This is a very distinct little shell, with slender spire, granulose upper whorls, and a wide, rather depressed body whorl. The small, thin shell is umbilicate. It has a slender elevated spire and a broad body whorl. Its color is yellowish, obscurely maculate with brown. The seven whorls are convex. The apical whorls is smooth, following 3 or 4 granulate whorls. The rest is densely spirally striate, with light incremental lines which decussate the lirulae, especially beneath. The spire is slender, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astele Subcarinata
''Astele subcarinata'', common name the subcarinate top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Astele subcarinata'' Swainson, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467151 on 2012-12-07 Taxonomy and nomenclature Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus ''Astele (Astele)''. This species was the first marine mollusc to be described in an Australian scientific journal, by William Swainson in the ''Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen’s Land'' (read before the Society March 1854, published 1855). The name ''Astele'' signifies lack of a columnella. Description The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 40 mm. The rather thin shell has a depressed-conical shape and is broader than high. It is broadly and profoundly umbilicated. It has a pale, yellowish flesh-color, painted with tawny flam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astele Speciosa
''Astele speciosa'', common name the beautiful top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Astele speciosa'' (A. Adams in H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467150 on 2012-12-07 Notes Additional information regarding this species: * Taxonomic remark: Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus ''Astele (Astele)'' Description The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 43 mm. The pyramidal-conical shell is imperforate, flesh-colored, variegated and punctate with rufous. The whorls are plano-concave, sculptured with transverse subgranulate alternately smaller and larger lirae. The granules are reddish brown. The body whorl is obtusely angular. The base of the shell is concentrically grooved. The umbilical region is impressed and bounded by a rufous callus. The aperture is subquadrate. The so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astele Bularra
''Astele bularra'', common name the ''necklace top shell'', is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae Calliostomatidae is a family of sea snails within the superfamily Trochoidea and the clade Vetigastropoda.Gofas, S. (2013). Calliostomatidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetail .... Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus ''Astele (Astele)'' Description The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 29 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs off Indo-Malaysia, the eastern coast of Australia and South Africa. References * Poppe G.T. (2004) ''Descriptions of spectacular new species from the Philippines (Gastropoda - Trochidae, Cypraeidae)''. Visaya 1(1): 4–19 External links * bularra Gastropods described in 1961 {{Calliostomatidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astele Ciliaris
''Astele ciliaris'', common name the keeled Australian top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Astele ciliaris'' (Menke, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467143 on 2012-12-07 Notes Additional information regarding this species: * Taxonomic remark: Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus Astele (Astele) Description The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 40 mm. The imperforate shell has a pyramidal shape. It is fulvous, with red spots along the suture. It is transversely striate, decussated by very delicate striae. The base of the shell is plane. The flat whorls are margined below and ciliate-fimbriate above. The aperture ovate-lanceolate. The outer lip is callous-margined inside. Distribution This marine species occurs off Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astele Allanae
''Astele allanae'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae. It was named in honour of Joyce Allan. Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus ''Astele (Coralastele)'' Description The height of the shell attains 19 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs off Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma .... References External links WMSDB: ''Astele allanae'' allanae Gastropods described in 1930 {{Calliostomatidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astele Multigrana
''Astele multigrana'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Astele multigrana'' (Dunker, 1871). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467145 on 2012-12-07 Notes Additional information regarding this species: * Taxonomic remark: Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus ''Astele (Astelena)'' Description The height of the shell attains 14 mm. The light-yellow turreted-conic shell is narrowly umbilicate. The eight whorls are nearly plane. They are encircled by numerous unequal granuliferous riblets. The sutural cingula are elevated, subundulate, spirally striate, and pallidly tessellate. The base of the shell is a little convex. It is covered with about 16 subgranose alternately larger and more delicate riblets. The umbilicus is narrow, surrounded by a white plate. The oblique columella terminates in a pearly denticle. The aperture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astele Armillata
''Astele armillata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Astele armillata'' (Wood, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467141 on 2012-12-07 Description The length of this shell varies between 25 mm and 38 mm. The shell has a strictly conical shape. It is carinated, imperforate, and thin but rather solid. It is very pale yellowish or pinkish, with irregular, rather pale vertical bands of light yellowish-brown, often broken into maculations, and radiating on the base. The surface is shining, with numerous spiral granose lirae. There are seven lirae on the penultimate whorm, on the antepenultimate, and on the upper surface of the body whorl. And sometimes these three whorls (or the last one) show interstitial threads between the granose lirae. The flat base of the shell has 12 or 13 concentric lirae, the several inner ones ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astele Stenomphala
''Astele stenomphala'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Astele stenomphala'' E. A. Smith, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=580401 on 2012-12-07 Description The height of the shell attains 16 mm. The sharply conical shell is keeled and, narrowly umbilicate. The obtuse keel which ascends the spire above the suture is ornamented with close-set elongate tubercles. The granules upon the slight angulation at the middle of the whorls are somewhat larger than those above and below. The spire contains 9 whorls. The first one is smooth, polished, and spherical. The others are convex, subangulate in the middle, and flat below. There are about 14 concentric, slender lirae. The white umbilicus is narrow. The aperture has an irregularly square shape. The columella is barely perpendicular and at its base obsoletely tubercled. The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astele Rubiginosa
''Astele rubiginosa'' is a species of sea snail, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Calliostomatidae.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Astele rubiginosa'' (Valenciennes, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467147 on 2012-12-07 Description The size of the shell varies between 19 mm and 30 mm. The imperforate, rather thin shell has an acutely conical shape. The ten Whorl (mollusc), whorls are plane. The first one is eroded and smooth. The following whorls are whitish buff, radiately flamed with brown and reddish. They are spirally cingulate with six granose cinguli. The upper 5 are small, separated by equal interstices. The lower cingulus is wider, more prominent and subcrenate. The body whorl is acutely carinated. The base of the shell is concentrically encircled by about 7-8 granose cinguli, alternately buff and rose colored. The Aperture (mollusc), aperture i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
