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Joculator semipictus (A. A. Gould, 1861)

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

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Joculator semipictus

Author: Kay, E.A.

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Description

Joculator semipicta (Gould, 1861). Length, 2.0 mm; diameter, 0,5 mm. Shell: ovate; two spirals of coarse beads on each whorl; yellow spirally banded with brown. Spire: protoconch slender, conical; of about four whorls; teleoconch of six convex whorls; suture in a deep furrow. Sculpture: two spiral rows of coarse beads on each whorl, the apical beads larger and elongated axially, a third row on the base. Aperture: small, lenticular. Color: protoconch white; yellow-white with a broad spiral band of brown on each whorl. These cerithiopsids are uncommon, occasionally found in sediments at depths to 10 m. J. semipicta was described from the "China Seas"; the species is also known from Fiji (as Cerithiopsis balteata Watson, 1880), and from Holocene and Miocene drill holes at Enewetak, Marshall Islands (Ladd, 1972).
Kay, E.A., 1979. Hawaiian Marine Shells. Reef and Shore Fauna of Hawaii. Section 4: Mollusca.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Joculator semipictus (Gould, 1861)]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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