''Bolma persica'', common name the peach bolma, is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, 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 class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.

Description

The size of the shell varies between 15 mm and 40 mm. Its color pattern is creamy yellow with radial dark purple flammules dorsally and ventrally, grading off on the anterior side to crimson and rose pink. The separate tubercles have dark color giving the effect of dots. The rather small shell has a conical shape. It shows long, spirally arranged peripheral spines on all five whorls (about equal to width of shoulder). The whorls are flat-sided. The early whorls show, on the upper surface, five beaded spirals, between which on the later whorls are intercalated one or more much smaller beaded or simple threads. These are crossed obliquely by small, sharp, imbricated lamellae, visible only under a lens. At the periphery the thin keel is produced into narrow, guttered spines with two or three radial threads on each. The

body whorl The body whorl is part of the morphology of the shell in those gastropod mollusks that possess a coiled shell. The term is also sometimes used in a similar way to describe the shell of a cephalopod mollusk. In gastropods In gastropods, the b ...

carries 10 to 15 triangular spines. The base is elegantly flammulated with dark purple, sculptured like the upper side, having one strong nodulous and seven or eight smaller spirals and the same imbricate minor sculpture. The peripheral keel should have, when intact, about 20 spines. The shell lacks a sutural channel. The white columella has a very narrow basal, milk-white callus. The aperture is rounded. The outer lip leadis at the suture, which is laid on the prominent basal spiral before mentioned. The aperture is white except where the color markings show through the glaze. This species closely resembles ''

Bolma guttata ''Bolma guttata'', common name the sandpaper bolma, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.Gofas, S. (2012). ''Bolma guttata'' (A. Adams, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of ...

'' (A. Adams, 1863) but the spire is relatively shorter and has a less pronounced granular sculpture. The spines when perfect are about 4 mm. long.Smithsonian miscellaneous collections v. 50 (1908)
(described as ''Astraea persica'')

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines,

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

and Vietnam.

References

Dall, W.H. 1907. Descriptions of new species of shells, chiefly Buccinidae, from dredgings of the U.S.S. "Albatross" during 1906, in the northwestern Pacific, Bering, Okhotsk, and Japanese seas. Smithson. Misc. Collns, 50 (2), No. 1727: 139–173

Beu A.G. & Ponder W.F. (1979) ''A revision of the species of Bolma Risso, 1826 (Gastropoda: Turbinidae).'' Records of the Australian Museum 32(1): 1–68
* Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) T''he family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990''. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1–82, pls 104–245.

External links

Beu A.G. & Ponder W.F. (1979) ''A revision of the species of Bolma Risso, 1826 (Gastropoda: Turbinidae)''. Records of the Australian Museum 32(1): 1–68. [31 May 1979]
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persica Persica may be: * Persica (Ctesias), a lost historical work * Persica, a subgenus of plants {{disambig ...

Gastropods described in 1907