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Cerithiopsis domlamyi Cecalupo & Perugia, 2020

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  family Cerithiopsidae »  genus Cerithiopsis

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Cerithiopsis domlamyi

Author: Cecalupo A. & Perugia I.

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North America: Guadeloupe, South America: Caribbean

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Description

TYPE MATERIAL Holotype (MNHN-IM-2000-35017) dim. 2.45 x 0.81 mm. Protoconch 0.32 × 0.22 mm. stn GB11. Paratype 1 (MNHN-IM-2000-35018) dim. 2.50 x 0.87 mm. Protoconch 0.33 × 0.22 mm. stn GB11. Paratype 2 (MNHN-IM-2000-35018) dim. 2.38 x 0.85 mm. Protoconch 0.32 0.21 mm. stn GB11.
TYPE LOCALITY Caribbean: Guadeloupe, Côte Ferry, 10 m.
DISTRIBUTION Guadeloupe.
MATERIAL EXAMINED Station of Guadeloupe: Côte Ferry, 10 m, spms 7, stn GB11.
DESCRIPTION Shell small, conical inflated, last whorl slightly constrict, moderately impressed sutures. Protoconch conical of 4 smooth convex whorls; colorless, semitransparent. Teleoconch of 6 whorls with sculpture of 3 spiral cords (1 and 2 closer) crossed by axial ribs, about 20 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 thin cord. Columella short and broad, obliquely truncated, with a surface crossed by thin crisp threads; a columellar callus bordering an oval aperture; anal sulcus and siphonal canal well defined. Background color brown, sutures and 1 spiral darker, beads paler.
COMPARISON Cerithiopsis domlamyi n. sp. is compared with the similar Cerithiopsis fusiformis (C. B. Adams, 1850) from Cuba, which mainly differs by a thin adapical spiral on the protoconch.
ETYMOLOGY Named after Dominique Lamy, author of the land- mark volumes Mollusques marins et dulçaquicoles.
Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2020). Report on the Cerithiopsidae from Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana (Caenogastropoda, Triphoroidea).
Author: Jan Delsing

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