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Phycothais reticulata (Blainville, 1832)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Muricidae - Muricids »  genus Phycothais

Scientific synonyms

Purpura reticulata Blainville, 1832
Purpura reticulata Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 nec Blainville, 1832
Lepsiella reticulata (Blainville, 1832)
Lepsiella reticulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Drupa reticulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Purpura humilis Crosse & P. Fischer, 1865

Images

Phycothais reticulata

Author: Houart & Héros

Phycothais reticulata

Author: Macpherson & Gabriel

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Description

"The Netted Lepsiella." Nearly oval, somewhat angular, rather thick; pinkish, with large brown spots on the nodules; spiral ribs numerous, small; axial striae, line, appearing only in the intervals between the spiral ribs; spire conic, somewhat elevated; protoconch of one-and-a-half turns, smooth, yellowish; spire whorls bear a zone of brown rather distant nodules, forming a keel; body-whorl, longer than the spire, angulated, with rows of similar brown nodulations; mouth oval-oblong, somewhat angular, pinkish, marked inside with a few rays; outer lip simple, subangulated medially. Height 12, diam. 6 mm. All round the coast of South Australia; beach and down to 110 fathoms, (mostly not beyond 20 fathoms). Not common. ('Type locality—Gulf St. Vincent.) Also Western Australia— Esperance, Ellensbrook, Yallingup, Hopetown.
Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K,1934. South Australian shells including descriptions of new genera and species.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Phycothais reticulata (Blainville, 1832)]
Data retrieved on: 2 May 2017

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