Taxon profile
species
Acteon punctocoelata Carpenter, 1864
kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Mollusca - mollusks » class Gastropoda - gastropods » order Allogastropoda » family Acteonidae
ID: 771138
pID: 309017
Taxonomic rank: 33
Author of the record: Jan Delsing
Created: 2010-04-26 12:27:46 - User Jan Delsing
URL: http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id771138/
Text function: [[t:771138;Acteon punctocoelata]]
pID: 309017
Taxonomic rank: 33
Author of the record: Jan Delsing
Created: 2010-04-26 12:27:46 - User Jan Delsing
URL: http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id771138/
Text function: [[t:771138;Acteon punctocoelata]]
Size
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 58872
Text Type: 2
Page: 0
Created: 2010-04-26 12:30:14 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
Text ID: 58872
Text Type: 2
Page: 0
Created: 2010-04-26 12:30:14 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
10 - 20 mm
Description
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 58870
Text Type: 1
Page: 0
Created: 2010-04-26 12:28:50 - User Jan Delsing
Last change: 2010-04-26 12:33:01 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
Text ID: 58870
Text Type: 1
Page: 0
Created: 2010-04-26 12:28:50 - User Jan Delsing
Last change: 2010-04-26 12:33:01 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
Shell oblong with conoidal spire; white with two broad ashy or brown zones. Whorls 5, convex, separated by impressed and narrowly channeled sutures. Surface sculptured throughout with spiral equidistant conspicuously punctate grooves, the raised intervals smooth except for a fine engraved live along the middle of each. Grooves on the body-whorl about 26. Aperture two-fifths to two-thirds the length of the shell. Columella having a spiral fold above, obliquely truncated at base.
Source: Tryon and Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology
Distribution
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 58871
Text Type: 3
Page: 0
Created: 2010-04-26 12:29:36 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
Text ID: 58871
Text Type: 3
Page: 0
Created: 2010-04-26 12:29:36 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
Monterey, California, to Magdalena Bay, Lower California.
Fossil : Pleistocene, Santa Barbara, to San Diego, California.
Fossil : Pleistocene, Santa Barbara, to San Diego, California.
Interesting facts
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 58873
Text Type: 20
Page: 0
Created: 2010-04-26 12:31:16 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
Text ID: 58873
Text Type: 20
Page: 0
Created: 2010-04-26 12:31:16 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
TYPE in United States National Museum. Type locality, Santa Cruz, California.
This species was described as Tornatella punctocoelata by Carpenter.
This species was described as Tornatella punctocoelata by Carpenter.
Author: Jan Delsing
Others
Copyright © 1999-2013 BioLib