''Hemilienardia ocellata'' 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

Raphitomidae Raphitomidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". ''Malacologia'' 47(1-2). . 39 ...

.MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Hemilienardia ocellata (Jousseaume, 1883). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=867647 on 2019-07-03

Description

The length of the shell varies between 3 mm and 11 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mauritius,

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, the Philippines, Taiwan and Queensland, Australia.

References

* Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1897. ''Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs Hadfield, with list of species. Part 3.'' Journal of Conchology 8: 396–421 * Hedley, C. 1909. ''Mollusca from the Hope Islands, north Queensland.'' Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34(1): 420–466, pls 36–44 * Powell, A.W.B. 1966. ''The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae, an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with list of characteristic species.'' Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 5: 1–184, pls 1–23 * Wiedrick S.G. (2017). Aberrant geomorphological affinities in four conoidean gastropod genera, Clathurella Carpenter, 1857 (Clathurellidae), Lienardia Jousseaume, 1884 (Clathurellidae), Etrema Hedley, 1918 (Clathurellidae) and Hemilienardia Boettger, 1895 (Raphitomidae), with the description of fourteen new Hemilienardia species from the Indo-Pacific. The Festivus. special issue: 2-45. * Uribe J.E., Puillandre N. & Zardoya R. , 2017. ''Beyond Conus: Phylogenetic relationships of Conidae based on complete mitochondrial genomes.'' Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 107: 142-151

External links

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Jousseaume, F. (1883). D''iagnose d'un nouveau genre de pleurotomidé''. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 8: xl-xli

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56

Fedosov A.E., Stahlschmidt P., Puillandre N., Aznar-Cormano L. & Bouchet P. (2017). ''Not all spotted cats are leopards: evidence for a Hemilienardia ocellata species complex (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Raphitomidae).'' European Journal of Taxonomy. 268: 1-20
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Gastropods.com: ''Hemilienardia ocellata''

MNHN, Paris: holotype
ocellata Gastropods described in 1883 {{Raphitomidae-stub