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Anticlimax tamarae F. Rubio & E. Rolán, 2014

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Littorinimorpha »  family Tornidae »  genus Anticlimax

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Anticlimax tamarae

Author: Rubio & Rolan

Anticlimax tamarae

Author: Rubio & Rolan

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Description

Shell very small (>1.5 mm), depressed, solid, bicarinate, and widely umbilicate.
Protoconch measuring about 340 µm, with more than 1,75 whorls and 2 distinct phases separated by an evident scar line; the first ½ whorl is completely smooth and the rest is covered by growth lines, tubercles of different sizes and small spiral threads that are grouped in the suture zone, sometimes obliquely. Teleoconch with 1,75 whorls and two peripheral carinae, one in prolongation of the suture and the other basal, which angle the shell. The shell is completely covered by spiral cords of different sizes that develop in zigzag and cross with the axial growth lines forming a reticule. The adapical part is covered by spiral cords, wider on the central area and narrower near the suture and the peripheral areas. The periphery between the carinae is completely covered by spiral cords; thick sinuous axial folds develop between both carinae, which seen apically give a star-shaped profile to the shell. The base is slightly convex and has very broad and low spiral cords. Umbilicus wide allowing the previous whorls to be seen, completely covered inside by spiral cords. Aperture oval, prosocline; parietal area with a thick callous coating; columella arched, very reflected towards the umbilicus; outer lip modified by the spiral cords but mainly by the peripheral carinae which angles it internally and prolong it laterally. Dimensions: the holotype is 1.65 mm in diameter.
Rubio, F. & Rolán, E., 2014. The family Tornidae in the tropical Southwest Pacific: the genus Anticlimax Pilsbry & McGinty, 1946 (Gastropoda, Truncatelloidea) with the description of 42 new species

Interchangeable taxa

The species is characterized by the large size and ornamentation of its protoconch; the axial folds that develop between the peripheral carinae; the spiral cords in zigzag which are more evident on the periphery; the large umbilicus fully covered inside by spiral cords. No other species looks like this.
Rubio, F. & Rolán, E., 2014. The family Tornidae in the tropical Southwest Pacific: the genus Anticlimax Pilsbry & McGinty, 1946 (Gastropoda, Truncatelloidea) with the description of 42 new species

Distribution

Only known from the Solomon Islands, between 435-461 m and the Philippine Islands, between 172-175 m. Bathyal species dredged at 435-461 m in the Solomon Islands and at 172-175 m in the Philippines.
Rubio, F. & Rolán, E., 2014. The family Tornidae in the tropical Southwest Pacific: the genus Anticlimax Pilsbry & McGinty, 1946 (Gastropoda, Truncatelloidea) with the description of 42 new species
Author: Jan Delsing

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