''Lioglyphostoma aguadillanum'' 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

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mollusk in the family

Pseudomelatomidae Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda ( Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). In 1995 Kantor elevated the subfamily Pseudomelatominae ...

, the turrids and allies. There is one subspecies: ''Lioglyphostoma aguadillanum minor'' (Dall & Simpson, 1901) (exactly similar in sculpture, but of a pale-straw color, and is 8.5 mm. long and 3 mm. in maximum diameter)

Description

The length of the shell attains 14 mm, its diameter 4 mm. (Original description) The small, slender shell is solid. It contains nine

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s of which the first three are nepionic, smooth and polished, the subsequent elegantly axially ribbed, with two to four primary spiral threads and a fine interstitial spiral striation, essentially as figured. The shell is white with a superficial brownish tinge on the larger whorls, apex and interior of the outer lip of a delicate lilac. The outer lip is strongly thickened. The inner lip and the aperture are smooth or destitute of the denticulations usually found in ''Mangilia''.
Dall, William Healey, and Charles Torrey Simpson. ''The Mollusca of Porto Rico.'' US Government Printing Office, 1901

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Puerto Rico.

References

* * W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299–452

External links

Rosenberg G., Moretzsohn F. & García E. F. (2009). ''Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico'', Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D. L. and D .K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
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Fossilworks: ''Euclathurella (Miraclathurella) aguadillana''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lioglyphostoma Aguadillanum aguadillanum Taxa named by William Healey Dall Taxa named by Charles Torrey Simpson Gastropods described in 1901