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Cerithiopsis aralia Olsson & Harbison, 1953
kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Mollusca - mollusks » class Gastropoda - gastropods » family Cerithiopsidae » genus Cerithiopsis
ID: 1877521
pID: 308106
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2022-03-07 18:01:24 - User Delsing Jan
Data last updated: 2022-03-07 18:01:25
URL: https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1877521/
Text function: [[t:1877521;<em>Cerithiopsis aralia</em>]]
[[t:1877521;<em>Cerithiopsis aralia</em>]] Olsson & Harbison, 1953
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1877521/"><em>Cerithiopsis aralia</em></a>
pID: 308106
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2022-03-07 18:01:24 - User Delsing Jan
Data last updated: 2022-03-07 18:01:25
URL: https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1877521/
Text function: [[t:1877521;<em>Cerithiopsis aralia</em>]]
[[t:1877521;<em>Cerithiopsis aralia</em>]] Olsson & Harbison, 1953
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1877521/"><em>Cerithiopsis aralia</em></a>
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Description
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 121503
Text Type: 1
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Created: 2023-02-27 12:54:17 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
Text function: [[t:1877521,textblock=121503,elang=EN;Description]]
Text ID: 121503
Text Type: 1
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Created: 2023-02-27 12:54:17 - User Delsing Jan
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Distribution: Florida, Texas. Size: 3 mm.
Description: Color uniformly coffee brown, protoconch light tan; shell barrel shaped; sculpture on teleoconch of spiral beaded cords with 2 spiral beaded cords on early whorls and 3 on body whorl; body whorl with spiral basal cords; axial sculpture of somewhat rounded riblets connecting spiral beads; thin spiral threads connecting whorls; protoconch with first nuclear whorls smooth, latter nuclear whorls with diagonal riblets; aperture sub-circular with distinct parietal shield; short siphon.
Habitat: Shell bottoms offshore and on the submerged Holocene ridges of Texas. Depth range 15 to 101 m (50 to 331 ft).
Remarks: Usually found in beach drift south of Freeport. See Olsson and Harbison (1953); Ode (1989c).
Description: Color uniformly coffee brown, protoconch light tan; shell barrel shaped; sculpture on teleoconch of spiral beaded cords with 2 spiral beaded cords on early whorls and 3 on body whorl; body whorl with spiral basal cords; axial sculpture of somewhat rounded riblets connecting spiral beads; thin spiral threads connecting whorls; protoconch with first nuclear whorls smooth, latter nuclear whorls with diagonal riblets; aperture sub-circular with distinct parietal shield; short siphon.
Habitat: Shell bottoms offshore and on the submerged Holocene ridges of Texas. Depth range 15 to 101 m (50 to 331 ft).
Remarks: Usually found in beach drift south of Freeport. See Olsson and Harbison (1953); Ode (1989c).
Tunnell, J.W. , Andrews, J. , Barrera, N.C. & Moretzsohn, F., 2010. Encyclopedia of Texas seashells.
Author: Jan Delsing
Links and literature
Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Cerithiopsis aralia Olsson & Harbison, 1953]Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013