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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 131818
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Created: 2025-01-20 02:11:10 - User Delsing Jan
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TYPE MATERIAL Holotype (MNHN-IM-2000-34802) dim. 3.26 x 1.18 mm. Protoconch 0.40 0.22 mm. stn GD10. Paratype 1 (MNHN-IM-2000-35022) dim. 2.87 x 0,90 mm. Protoconch 0.42 0.22 mm. stn AB372.
TYPE LOCALITY Caribbean: Guadeloupe, Pointe nord Baie de Bouillante. 54 m. DISTRIBUTION Guadeloupe.
DESCRIPTION OF HOLOTYPE Shell medium in size, conical with impressed sutures. aperture damaged. Protoconch conical of about 4.5 smooth convex whorls, whitish, semitransparent. Teleoconch of 6.5 slightly convex whorls with reticulate sculpture of 3 equal spiral cords (closer on the 2 first whorls), crossed by axial ribs, about 24 on last whorl; beads at each intersection. A fourth beaded cord is emerging at the base of the last whorl from the insertion of the outer lip; border between columella and base highlighted by a c angle. Columella short, aperture and outer damaged. Color red brown, 3rd spiral cord slightly paler, 2 spiral cord and interspaces whitish.
COMPARISON For the color and size it can be easily confused w the very variable Cerithiopsis albovittata (C. Adams, 1850), which differs by its sculptured proto conch.
ETYMOLOGY Named after Fabien Barthelat, biodiversity off with the Guadeloupe Directorate for the Environment (DEAL), for his facilitating of the MN operations. Cerithiopsis bouchonorum n. sp.
Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2020). Report on the Cerithiopsidae from Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana (Caenogastropoda, Triphoroidea).