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Autor: Tunnell et al.
Popis
Cerithidea pliculosa (Menke, 1829) Plicate Hornsnail
Distribution: Texas, Louisiana; West Indies. Size: 12 to 33 mm
Description: Color brownish-black, varices yellow or orange-yellow with a yellow band at center of each whorl; shape elongate-conic, turriculate; sculpture of 11 to 13 convex whorls; nuclear whorls usually lost as adult; axial ribs irregular, strong; spiral sculpture absent; numerous varices, a characteristic feature of mature snails; aperture subcircular, outer lip thick and forms an outer varix around the aperture; siphonal canal not well developed; operculum corneous with a central nucleus.
Habitat: Found in bay shorelines on mudflats, often near salt marsh cordgrass at depths from 0 to 2 m (7 ft).
Remarks: Juveniles without varices easily confused as ceriths. See Bequaert (1942); Andrews (1977).
Panamic Vicariant: C. albonodosa Gould and Carpenter, 1857.
Distribution: Texas, Louisiana; West Indies. Size: 12 to 33 mm
Description: Color brownish-black, varices yellow or orange-yellow with a yellow band at center of each whorl; shape elongate-conic, turriculate; sculpture of 11 to 13 convex whorls; nuclear whorls usually lost as adult; axial ribs irregular, strong; spiral sculpture absent; numerous varices, a characteristic feature of mature snails; aperture subcircular, outer lip thick and forms an outer varix around the aperture; siphonal canal not well developed; operculum corneous with a central nucleus.
Habitat: Found in bay shorelines on mudflats, often near salt marsh cordgrass at depths from 0 to 2 m (7 ft).
Remarks: Juveniles without varices easily confused as ceriths. See Bequaert (1942); Andrews (1977).
Panamic Vicariant: C. albonodosa Gould and Carpenter, 1857.
Tunnell, J.W. , Andrews, J. , Barrera, N.C. & Moretzsohn, F., 2010. Encyclopedia of Texas seashells.
Autor: Jan Delsing
Odkazy a literatura
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [189357]
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [jako Cerithidea pliculosa (Menke, 1829)]
Datum citace: 29. leden 2024
Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [jako Cerithidea pliculosa Menke, 1829]Datum citace: 23. listopad 2013