''Lampasopsis lucaensis'' 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
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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 Bursidae
The Bursidae, common name "frog snails" or "frog shells", are a rather small taxonomic family of large sea snails, marine gastropod predatory snails in the clade Littorinimorpha. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bursidae Thiele, 1925. A ...
, the frog shells.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Lampasopsis lucaensis (Parth, 1991). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1472315 on 2023-07-20]
Description
Original description: "Very small sized shell, the type measures 22.3 mm. Of very light weight, varices arranged at 180 degrees, elongated spire. The colour is from cream to light brown with yellow tinges on the varices. 4 main spiral cords, with 3 to 4 developed tubercules on the cords themselves. The mouth is oval, the internal lip is densely plicated over its whole length. The mouth is pink coloured, in the higher part of the internal lip with a darker tone. External lip with 5 groups of very long denticles, each group has 2 to 3 denticles. The protoconch is of 2,1/2 whorls, diameter 2.1 mm."
Distribution
Locus typicus: "Cebu, Philippines.";
[Parth, M. 1991-''La Conchiglia, Year XXII, No. 259, April–June, 1991'', page 20.] also off
Irian Jaya, Indonesia and
New Caledonia
)
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References
External links
Sanders M.T., Merle D., Laurin M., Bonillo C. & Puillandre N. (2021 (nomenclatural availability: 2020) ). Raising names from the dead: a time-calibrated phylogeny of frog shells (Bursidae, Tonnoidea, Gastropoda) using mitogenomic data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 156: 107040: 1-12
Bursidae
Gastropods described in 1991
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