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Phorcus
''Phorcus'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails. Distribution These marine species are algal grazers in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Species Species within the genus ''Phorcus'' include: * ''Phorcus articulatus'' (Lamarck, 1822) * '' Phorcus atratus'' (Wood, 1828) * † '' Phorcus burgadoi'' Martín-González, 2018 * † '' Phorcus gallicophorcus'' Landau, Van Dingenen & Ceulemans, 2017 * '' Phorcus lineatus'' (da Costa, 1778) * '' Phorcus mariae'' Templado & Rolán, 2012 * '' Phorcus mutabilis'' (Philippi, 1846) * '' Phorcus punctulatus'' (Lamarck, 1822) * '' Phorcus richardi'' (Payraudeau, 1826) * ''Phorcus sauciatus ''Phorcus sauciatus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. It is native to the Eastern North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Macaronesia and the Iberian Peninsula. Description The size of . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phorcus Burgadoi
''Phorcus'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family (biology), family Trochidae, the top snails. Distribution These marine species are algal grazers in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Species Species within the genus ''Phorcus'' include: * ''Phorcus articulatus'' (Lamarck, 1822) * ''Phorcus atratus'' (Wood, 1828) * † ''Phorcus burgadoi'' Martín-González, 2018 * † ''Phorcus gallicophorcus'' Landau, Van Dingenen & Ceulemans, 2017 * ''Phorcus lineatus'' (da Costa, 1778) * ''Phorcus mariae'' Templado & Rolán, 2012 * ''Phorcus mutabilis'' (Philippi, 1846) * ''Phorcus punctulatus'' (Lamarck, 1822) * ''Phorcus richardi'' (Payraudeau, 1826) * ''Phorcus sauciatus'' (Koch, 1845) * ''Phorcus turbinatus'' (Born, 1780) ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Phorcus margaritaceus'' Risso, 1826: synonym of ''Phorcus richardi'' (Payraudeau, 1826) * ''Phorcus semigranosus'' A. Adams, 1851: synon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phorcus
''Phorcus'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails. Distribution These marine species are algal grazers in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Species Species within the genus ''Phorcus'' include: * ''Phorcus articulatus'' (Lamarck, 1822) * '' Phorcus atratus'' (Wood, 1828) * † '' Phorcus burgadoi'' Martín-González, 2018 * † '' Phorcus gallicophorcus'' Landau, Van Dingenen & Ceulemans, 2017 * '' Phorcus lineatus'' (da Costa, 1778) * '' Phorcus mariae'' Templado & Rolán, 2012 * '' Phorcus mutabilis'' (Philippi, 1846) * '' Phorcus punctulatus'' (Lamarck, 1822) * '' Phorcus richardi'' (Payraudeau, 1826) * ''Phorcus sauciatus ''Phorcus sauciatus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. It is native to the Eastern North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Macaronesia and the Iberian Peninsula. Description The size of . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phorcus Gallicophorcus
''Phorcus'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails. Distribution These marine species are algal grazers in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Species Species within the genus ''Phorcus'' include: * ''Phorcus articulatus'' ( Lamarck, 1822) * ''Phorcus atratus'' (Wood, 1828) * † ''Phorcus burgadoi'' Martín-González, 2018 * † '' Phorcus gallicophorcus'' Landau, Van Dingenen & Ceulemans, 2017 * ''Phorcus lineatus'' (da Costa, 1778) * '' Phorcus mariae'' Templado & Rolán, 2012 * ''Phorcus mutabilis'' (Philippi, 1846) * ''Phorcus punctulatus'' ( Lamarck, 1822) * ''Phorcus richardi'' (Payraudeau, 1826) * ''Phorcus sauciatus'' (Koch, 1845) * ''Phorcus turbinatus ''Phorcus turbinatus'', common name the turbinate monodont, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.Gofas, S. (2012). ''Phorcus turbinatus'' (Born, 1780). Acces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phorcus Mutabilis
''Phorcus mutabilis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. Description The size of the shell varies between 12 mm and 24 mm. The solid, globose-conoid shell is umbilicate or subimperforate. It resembles a young ''Phorcus articulatus''. Its color is usually grayish-yellow, yellow or flesh-tinted, more or less obviously marked with obliquely radiating lines or maculations of dull crimson, sometimes broken into tessellations, sometimes faintly, minutely articulated with reddish, appearing nearly unicolored. The short spire is conoid. The suture is impressed. The 5 to 6 whorls are slightly convex and spirally finely grooved. The body whorl is somewhat flattened around the upper part. The large aperture is very oblique. The lip forms half of a circle. It is not so much thickened nor beveled within as in ''Phorcus articulatus''. The columella is more flattened than that of ''Phorcus articulatus''. It is scarcely edg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phorcus Lineatus
''Phorcus lineatus'', common name the lined top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.Gofas, S. (2012). ''Phorcus lineatus'' (da Costa, 1778). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=689176 on 2012-11-23 It is native to shores of the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. Description The size of the shell varies between 10 mm and 35 mm. The very thick and solid imperforate shell is subperforate in the young. It has a globose-conic shape. It is dull grayish, densely marked all over with very numerous fine flexuous or zigzag braided purplish-black lines. The spire is conic. The 6 to 7 whorls are convex. The apex is usually eroded and orange-colored. The body whorl is flattened around the superior portion. The base of the shell is eroded in front of the aperture. The aperture is oblique. The columella is short, obtusely subdentate near the base, spre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phorcus Articulatus
''Phorcus articulatus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Trochidae, the top snails.Gofas, S. (2012). ''Phorcus articulatus'' (Lamarck, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=689174 on 2012-11-23 Description The height of the shell varies between 15 mm and 28 mm, its diameter between 21 mm and 24 mm. The shell is imperforate in the adult, generally perforate when immature. It is heavy and thick and has an elongate-conical shape. Its color is cinereous greenish or whitish, spirally traversed by bands composed of alternating white and black purplish or red squarish spots. The intervals between the bands are longitudinally closely lineolate with blackish. The Spire (mollusc), spire is elevated. The shell contains about 6 Whorl (mollusc), whorls. The upper ones are slightly convex, the last generally constricted and conca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phorcus Sauciatus
''Phorcus sauciatus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. It is native to the Eastern North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Macaronesia and the Iberian Peninsula. Description The size of the shell varies between 11 mm and 27 mm. The imperforate, rather thin shell has a low conical shape. The coloration is excessively mutable, as well as the general form. Its ground color is greenish, especially on the body whorl, usually purplish on the spire, and either: * spirally encircled by bands of dark green, black, or red oblong spots articulated with a lighter color * or obscurely mottled with reddish, the ground color covered with fine oblique or zigzag lines. The pattern is sometimes so obscurely mottled, spirally and obliquely streaked, that it appears nearly uniform olivaceous, especially on the body whorl. The conic spire is more or less elevated. The minute apex is acute, reddish, when not eroded. The sutures are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phorcus Richardi
''Phorcus richardi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. Description The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 23 mm. The umbilicate, conoidal shell is olivaceous or yellowish. It is ornamented with obliquely longitudinal tawny stripes. The entire surface is smooth. The conical spire is short. The sutures are deeply impressed. The five whorls are convex, the last one flattened and sloping around the upper part, and very obtusely subangular around the periphery. The large aperture is very oblique. The outer lip is thin, acute, and very narrowly margined with yellow, succeeded by a line of black, within which lies a band (about 2 mm wide) of opaque white. The columella is arcuate above, partly surrounding the umbilicus with a white callus. It is straightened in the middle. The umbilical tract lis arge, white, funnel-shaped, and bounded by a carina. Distribution This species occurs in the Mediterra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phorcus Turbinatus
''Phorcus turbinatus'', common name the turbinate monodont, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.Gofas, S. (2012). ''Phorcus turbinatus'' (Born, 1780). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=689179 on 2012-11-23 Description The size of the shell varies between 15 mm and 43 mm. The very solid and thick, imperforate shell has a conical shape. It is whitish, tinged with gray, yellowish or greenish, tessellated with numerous spiral series of reddish, purple or chocolate sub-quadrangular blotches. The conoid spire is more or less elevated. The apex is eroded. The about 6 whorls are slightly convex, with impressed spiral lines between the series of blotches, the last generally descending anteriorly. The base of the shell is eroded in front of the aperture. The aperture is very oblique. The thick, smooth outer lip is beveled to an edge. It is pearly a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phorcus Punctulatus
''Phorcus punctulatus'', common name the punctate monodont, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.Gofas, S. (2012). ''Phorcus punctulatus'' (Lamarck, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=689177 on 2012-11-23 Description The size of the shell varies between 15 mm and 20 mm. The solid, imperforate shell has a conical shape. It is, deep purplish-brown or blackish, dotted with white, the dots sometimes forming spiral series, and always elongated in the direction of the spiral. The surface is nearly smooth, sometimes showing traces of spiral grooves, which are always visible on the young. The spire is conoid. The apex is generally eroded and orange-colored. The 6 whorls are convex. The body whorl is somewhat flattened or subconcave around the upper part. The base of the shell is convex, eroded and white in front of the aperture. The aperture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phorcus Atratus
''Phorcus atratus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. Description The height of the shell varies between 17 mm and 24 mm, its diameter between 16 mm and 19 mm. The solid, imperforate shell has a conical shape. The spire is conical. The apical whorls are eroded, the following dull cinereous or purplish-black, marked with several spiral rows of white spots, or with longitudinal zigzag white stripes. The base of the shell is generally tessellated or striped with white. The shell contains 5 to 6 whorls. The upper ones are marked with spiral impressed lines in young specimens, and two carinae, the latter giving the body whorl a squarish form. The aperture is oblique. The lip is not much thickened within. The short columella is obsoletely subdentate at its base. Above at the insertion it shows a heavy white callous spread upon the base, invading the umbilicus, and wholly closing it, or leaving only a na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phorcus Mariae
''Phorcus mariae'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.Gofas, S. (2012). ''Phorcus mariae'' Templado & Rolán, 2012. 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=670453 on 2012-11-23 Distribution This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verde Islands. References External links World Register of Marine Species mariae Gastropods described in 2012 Gastropods of Cape Verde {{Trochidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
