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Astyris elegans Gulbin, 1983
kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Mollusca - mollusks » class Gastropoda - gastropods » order Neogastropoda » family Columbellidae - Dove Shells » genus Astyris
ID: 1346800
pID: 570639
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Delsing Jan
Created: 2019-07-16 17:06:30 - User Delsing Jan
Data last updated: 2021-02-22 05:48:56
URL: https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1346800/
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[[t:1346800;<em>Astyris elegans</em>]] Gulbin, 1983
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1346800/"><em>Astyris elegans</em></a>
pID: 570639
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Delsing Jan
Created: 2019-07-16 17:06:30 - User Delsing Jan
Data last updated: 2021-02-22 05:48:56
URL: https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1346800/
Text function: [[t:1346800;<em>Astyris elegans</em>]]
[[t:1346800;<em>Astyris elegans</em>]] Gulbin, 1983
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1346800/"><em>Astyris elegans</em></a>
Data source: WORMS
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Description
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 94969
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Created: 2019-07-16 17:06:59 - User Delsing Jan
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Created: 2019-07-16 17:06:59 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell to 12 mm long, width to length ratio 0.33-0.37; translucent white or off-white; with 4-6 moderately rounded teleoconch whorls; regular fine spiral grooves more or less pronounced overall, some specimens essentially smooth. Aperture neither thickened nor denticulate. Protoconch white, peglike or broadly conical, unsculptured, 2-2.25 whorls, without a velar sinus.
DeMaintenon M.J. (2019). The columbellid species of the northeast Pacific coast from the Aleutian Islands to Cedros Island, Baja California (Neogastropoda: Columbellidae).
Interchangeable taxa
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 94971
Text Type: 19
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Created: 2019-07-16 17:08:02 - User Delsing Jan
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Text ID: 94971
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This species is narrower than A. amiantis, and less sculptured than A. lattis.
DeMaintenon M.J. (2019). The columbellid species of the northeast Pacific coast from the Aleutian Islands to Cedros Island, Baja California (Neogastropoda: Columbellidae).
Distribution
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 94970
Text Type: 3
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Created: 2019-07-16 17:07:32 - User Delsing Jan
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Text function: [[t:1346800,textblock=94970,elang=EN;Distribution]]
Text ID: 94970
Text Type: 3
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Created: 2019-07-16 17:07:32 - User Delsing Jan
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Aleutian Islands, Alaska, to Vancouver, British Columbia, intertidal to 165 m, common, most common around 100 m.
DeMaintenon M.J. (2019). The columbellid species of the northeast Pacific coast from the Aleutian Islands to Cedros Island, Baja California (Neogastropoda: Columbellidae).
Author: Jan Delsing
Links and literature
Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Astyris elegans Gulbin, 1983]Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013