Taxon profile
species
Polinices lacteus (Guilding, 1834)
kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Mollusca - mollusks » class Gastropoda - gastropods » order Littorinimorpha » family Naticidae - Moon Shells » genus Polinices
ID: 545395
pID: 169159
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2008-08-17 01:12:54 - User Jiří Novák
Last change: 2022-11-24 19:07:23 - User Václav Hanzlík
Data last updated: 2021-02-28 10:49:20
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[[t:545395;<em>Polinices lacteus</em>]] (Guilding, 1834)
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id545395/"><em>Polinices lacteus</em></a>
pID: 169159
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2008-08-17 01:12:54 - User Jiří Novák
Last change: 2022-11-24 19:07:23 - User Václav Hanzlík
Data last updated: 2021-02-28 10:49:20
URL: https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id545395/
Text function: [[t:545395;<em>Polinices lacteus</em>]]
[[t:545395;<em>Polinices lacteus</em>]] (Guilding, 1834)
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id545395/"><em>Polinices lacteus</em></a>
Images
Author: Tunnell et al.
Author: Sowerby, G.B. (II)
Author: Daccarett, E.Y. & Bossio, V.S.
Taxon in country check-lists*
Atlantic Ocean, Africa: Senegal, Europe: Canary Islands, North America: Cuba, Dominican Republic, United States of America (Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas), South America: Brazil, Caribbean, Colombia
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Description
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 112391
Text Type: 1
Page: 0
Created: 2021-11-11 17:58:19 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
Text function: [[t:545395,textblock=112391,elang=EN;Description]]
Text ID: 112391
Text Type: 1
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Created: 2021-11-11 17:58:19 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
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Milk Moonsnail
Distribution: North Carolina to Florida to Brazil; Texas; Bermuda. Size: 18 to 38 mm
Description: Color milk white, fresh shells have a fine yellowish-white periostracum; shape broadly ovate; sculpture of teleoconch whorls slightly convex; body whorl broad and round; upper portion of umbilicus covered by a strong callus, giving chinklike appearance; operculum horny and usually a reddish-brown. Habitat: Intertidal in sand bottoms; shells washed ashore. In Texas found on offshore reefs and algal zones, such as those at Stetson Bank and FGB. Depth range Oto 120 m (394 ft).
Remarks: P. uberinus d'Orbigny, 1842 may only be a form of P. lacteus. Juveniles of P. lacteus are translucent with a distinct brownish protoconch. See Rehder (1981); Ode (1982b).
Synonym: Naticina lactea Guilding, 1834.
Distribution: North Carolina to Florida to Brazil; Texas; Bermuda. Size: 18 to 38 mm
Description: Color milk white, fresh shells have a fine yellowish-white periostracum; shape broadly ovate; sculpture of teleoconch whorls slightly convex; body whorl broad and round; upper portion of umbilicus covered by a strong callus, giving chinklike appearance; operculum horny and usually a reddish-brown. Habitat: Intertidal in sand bottoms; shells washed ashore. In Texas found on offshore reefs and algal zones, such as those at Stetson Bank and FGB. Depth range Oto 120 m (394 ft).
Remarks: P. uberinus d'Orbigny, 1842 may only be a form of P. lacteus. Juveniles of P. lacteus are translucent with a distinct brownish protoconch. See Rehder (1981); Ode (1982b).
Synonym: Naticina lactea Guilding, 1834.
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 Polinices lacteus Guilding, 1834]Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013