CZ EN
SEARCH  

Taxon profile

species

Belomitra chasmata (W.H. Dall, 1927)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Belomitridae »  genus Belomitra

Images

Belomitra chasmata

Author: Dall, W.H.

Taxon in country check-lists*

* List of countries might not be complete

Description

Shell small, slender, white, the aperture about half the length, with a blunt smooth nucleus of a whorl and a half, and three and a half subsequent whorls; suture appressed and slightly coronated by the swollen ends of the ribs; the fasciole slightly constricted, its anterior edge forming an angular shoulder; axial sculpture of (on the last whorl about 20) narrow rather straight rounded ribs with equal or wider interspaces crossing the whorls, flexuous on the fasciole; spiral sculpture none, even the back of the canal is smooth; aperture narrow, the canal hardly differentiated, the anal sulcus wide and shallow, the pillar straight, attenuated in front, axis impervious. Length, 5.5; diameter, 2 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 107964.
Dall, W.H., 1927. Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' in 1885 and 1886.

Distribution

USA. Florida. Off Fernandina.
Dall, W.H., 1927. Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' in 1885 and 1886.
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 Belomitra chasmata Dall, 1927]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

Contributions to BioLib

Help us to expand this encyclopedia! If you are logged in, you can add new subtaxa, vernacular and scientific names, texts, images or intertaxon relationships for this taxon.

Comments