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Elaeocyma Glabriuscula
''Elaeocyma'' is a genus of sea snails in the family Drilliidae. Description This genus contains the light-colored species, with an oily gloss, thin shells, and prominent riblets usually crossed by rather widely spaced spiral striations, previously included in the genus '' Drillia''. Distribution This marine genus occurs off the Pacific coast of America. Species Species within the genus ''Elaeocyma'' include: * '' Elaeocyma amplinucis'' McLean & Poorman, 1971 * '' Elaeocyma arenensis'' (Hertlein & Strong, 1951) * '' Elaeocyma attalia'' Dall, 1919 * † ''Elaeocyma benten'' (Yokoyama, 1920) * † '' Elaeocyma citharella'' (Lamarck, 1803) * † '' Elaeocyma drilliaeformis'' (Cossmann & Pissarro, 1901) * '' Elaeocyma empyrosia'' (Dall, 1899) * '' Elaeocyma melichroa'' McLean & Poorman, 1971 * † '' Elaeocyma plicata'' Lamarck 1804 * '' Elaeocyma ricaudae'' Berry, 1969 * '' Elaeocyma splendidula'' (Sowerby I, 1834) * † '' Elaeocyma subcostaria'' (de Boury, 1899) * '' Elaeocyma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeocyma Splendidula
''Elaeocyma splendidula'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. Description The shell grows to a length of 28 mm. The whorls are smooth. The shell is longitudinally ribbed below the tuberculate periphery. The tubercles and ribs are slight, the latter curved, and white upon a brownish rose-colored surface.G.W. Tryon George Washington Tryon Jr. (20 May 1838 – 5 February 1888) was an American malacologist who worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Biography George Washington Tryon was the son of Edward K. Tryon and Adeline Savid ..., Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 200; 1884 Distribution This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Pacific Ocean off the Galapagos Islands. References Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295 External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Elaeocyma Splendidula splendidula Gastropods described in 1834 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeocyma Subcostaria
''Elaeocyma subcostaria'' is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae The Drilliidae are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small predatory sea snails with high-spired shells. They are classified as marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. This family has no s .... Description Distribution This extinct species was found in strata of the Lutetian in France. References External links subcostaria {{drilliidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeocyma Glabriuscula
''Elaeocyma'' is a genus of sea snails in the family Drilliidae. Description This genus contains the light-colored species, with an oily gloss, thin shells, and prominent riblets usually crossed by rather widely spaced spiral striations, previously included in the genus '' Drillia''. Distribution This marine genus occurs off the Pacific coast of America. Species Species within the genus ''Elaeocyma'' include: * '' Elaeocyma amplinucis'' McLean & Poorman, 1971 * '' Elaeocyma arenensis'' (Hertlein & Strong, 1951) * '' Elaeocyma attalia'' Dall, 1919 * † ''Elaeocyma benten'' (Yokoyama, 1920) * † '' Elaeocyma citharella'' (Lamarck, 1803) * † '' Elaeocyma drilliaeformis'' (Cossmann & Pissarro, 1901) * '' Elaeocyma empyrosia'' (Dall, 1899) * '' Elaeocyma melichroa'' McLean & Poorman, 1971 * † '' Elaeocyma plicata'' Lamarck 1804 * '' Elaeocyma ricaudae'' Berry, 1969 * '' Elaeocyma splendidula'' (Sowerby I, 1834) * † '' Elaeocyma subcostaria'' (de Boury, 1899) * '' Elaeocyma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clathrodrillia Salvadorica
''Clathrodrillia salvadorica'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. Description The size of an adult shell varies between 20 mm and 30 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs between the Gulf of California and El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b .... References External links * Salvadorica Gastropods described in 1951 {{drilliidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kylix Impressa
''Kylix impressa'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. Description The shell grows to a length of 14 mm. The shell is tuberculately ribbed with oblique ribs. The interstices are transversely striated The back of the body whorl is smooth. The shell has a pale flesh-color, the ribs are whitish. The outer lip is a little expanded.G.W. Tryon Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 189; 1884 (described as ''Drillia impressa'') Distribution This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Pacific Ocean from Nicaragua to Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no .... References Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295 External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kylix Im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kylix Ianthe
''Kylix ianthe'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. Description The shell grows to a length of 17 mm, its diameter 6.5 mm. (Original description) The shell is acute and polished. its color is white with touches of brown on the anal fasciole and on the body whorl behind the varix. The protoconch is blunt. The first whorl is smooth, the second peripherally carinate. The eight subsequent whorls are moderately rounded. The suture is distinct, appressed and somewhat undulate. The anal fasciole is narrow and slightly constricted. The spiral sculpture consists of (on the penultimate whorl 3 or 4) incised lines in front of the periphery. The wider interspaces are raised and more or less rounded. On the body whorl there are 16 or more, extending to the siphonal canal. The incised lines have a more opaque appearance contrasting with the translucent white of the whorls. There is no fine spiral striation. The axial sculpture consis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kylix Halocydne
''Kylix halocydne'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae that lives in a tropical climate, usually in the Eastern Pacific area. Description The shell grows to a length of 18 mm, its diameter 6 mm. (Original description) The slender shell is acute and rather flat-sided. Its color is purplish brown usually more or less obscured by a yellowish white glaze. The first turn of the protoconch is smooth and inflated, the second has a peripheral keel and is followed by about 8½ subsequent whorls. The suture is strongly appressed with a smooth narrow band in front of it and behind the somewhat constricted fasciole Other spiral sculpture consists of sharply incised lines, four or five on the spire between the sutures, equal and with wider equal rounded interspaces, and about 24 on the body whorl. The interspaces become more cord-like near the siphonal canal and sometimes feebly nodulous where the lines cut the ribs. The axial sculp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calliclava Craneana
''Calliclava craneana'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae The Drilliidae are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small predatory sea snails with high-spired shells. They are classified as marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. This family has no s .... Description The shell grows to a length of 21 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Panama. References External links * craneana Gastropods described in 1951 {{drilliidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siphonofusus Chinensis
''Siphonofusus'', also known as Waller's Whelk, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. This genus is now considered a synonym of ''Euthria'' Gray, 1850 Species Species within the genus ''Siphonofusus'' include: * '' Siphonofusus chinensis'' (MacNeil, 1960) * '' Siphonofusus vicdani'' Kosuge, 1992 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Siphonofusus bradneri'' Drivas & Jay, 1990: synonym of ''Chryseofusus bradneri'' (Drivas & Jay, 1990)* * ''Siphonofusus brunobrianoi'': synonym of ''Buccinulum brunobrianoi'' Parth, 1993 * ''Siphonofusus chrysodomoides'': synonym of ''Chryseofusus chrysodomoides'' (Schepman, 1911) * ''Siphonofusus somalicus'' Parth, 1999: synonym of ''Euthria somalica ''Euthria somalica'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cymatosyrinx Arbela
''Cymatosyrinx arbela'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. Description The length of the shell attains 13.7 mm, its diameter 5 mm. (Original description) The small, glistening shell is acute. Its color is brownish, with the projecting sculpture paler. The protoconch is dark brown, glassy, rather irregularly coiled and consists of one smooth whorl. It is followed by a peripherally keeled turn and about eight subsequent whorls. The suture is distinct, appressed, with a nodulose band in front of it where the ends of the ribs are cut off by a very narrow fasciolar constriction. The spiral sculpture consists of a few incised lines cutting only the interspaces between the ribs, on the spire. On the body whorl there are six or seven of these lines, with much wider interspaces, followed by three strong cords close-set on the siphonal canal. The axial sculpture consists of (on the body whorl about 13) protractively oblique whiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drillia Aerope
''Drillia aerope'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. Description The shell grows to a length of 16 mm. (Original description) The small, acute shell is whitish. It has a polished, smooth, trochiform protoconch of about 2½ whorls. The teleoconch contains the subsequent eight or more whorls. The suture is distinct and slightly appressed. The anal fasciole is slightly constricted. The spiral sculpture consists of sharp narrow grooves, with much wider flat smooth interspaces. There are about eleven of the grooves on the body whorl between the shoulder and the spirally threaded siphonal fasciole. The anal fasciole is not spirally striate. The axial sculpture consists of (on the body whorl about 10) sharp-edged ribs, with wider interspaces, compressed and arcuate on the anal fasciole, nearly vertical elsewhere and extending over the whole whorl, but not continuous over the spire. The incremental lines are inconspicuous. The aperture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calliclava Aegina
''Calliclava aegina'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. Description The length of the shell attains 13 mm, its diameter 4.8 mm. (Original description) The brownish shell is pale on the early whorls, with a whitish glaze and polished. The shell is acute, except for the apex of the protoconch, which is flattened. The protoconch is smooth and polished. It contains two whorls, the second sharply keeled and passing gradually into the sculpture of the subsequent 8½ whorls. The suture is strongly appressed behind the concave arcuately striated anal fasciole. The axial sculpture shows (on the body whorl 10) prominent protractive ribs extending from the fasciole to the succeeding suture on the spire and somewhat over the periphery on the body whorl. These ribs are knob-like and prominent on the periphery and rapidly diminish forward. The incremental sculpture is faint. The spiral sculpture begins on the early whorls with abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |