Taxon profile
species
Cyphoma macgintyi H. A. Pilsbry, 1939
kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Mollusca - mollusks » class Gastropoda - gastropods » order Littorinimorpha » family Ovulidae - Egg Shells » genus Cyphoma
ID: 545717
pID: 24538
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2008-08-17 12:17:01 - User Jiří Novák
Data last updated: 2021-02-27 02:22:13
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[[t:545717;<em>Cyphoma macgintyi</em>]] H. A. Pilsbry, 1939
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id545717/"><em>Cyphoma macgintyi</em></a>
pID: 24538
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2008-08-17 12:17:01 - User Jiří Novák
Data last updated: 2021-02-27 02:22:13
URL: https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id545717/
Text function: [[t:545717;<em>Cyphoma macgintyi</em>]]
[[t:545717;<em>Cyphoma macgintyi</em>]] H. A. Pilsbry, 1939
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id545717/"><em>Cyphoma macgintyi</em></a>
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Author: Tunnell et al.
Taxon in country check-lists*
Atlantic Ocean, North America: Bahamas, Bermuda, United States of America (Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas), South America: Caribbean
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Description
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 112354
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Created: 2021-11-11 14:36:02 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
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Created: 2021-11-11 14:36:02 - User Delsing Jan
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McGinty's Cyphoma
Distribution: North Carolina to Florida, Texas; Bahamas; Bermuda. Size: 19 to 57 mm
Description: Color glossy white and polished, aperture cameo pink; shape pyriform, elongate, and cylindrical; sculpture smooth with a pronounced transverse ridge located almost centrally on dorsal surface of shell; aperture narrow, as long as shell; outer apertural lip curved and thickened; columella thick, somewhat straight and bowed at both ends; mantle of living snails with numerous solid spots, which are roundish or in short bars. Habitat: Lives on searods, sea pansies, and branched whip coral {Eugorgia virgulata). Depth range 1 to 96 m (3 to 315 ft).
Remarks: C mcgintyi in Andrews (1971) is Pseudocyphoma intermedium (Sowerby I, 1828). See Cate (1973); Boone (1983).
Distribution: North Carolina to Florida, Texas; Bahamas; Bermuda. Size: 19 to 57 mm
Description: Color glossy white and polished, aperture cameo pink; shape pyriform, elongate, and cylindrical; sculpture smooth with a pronounced transverse ridge located almost centrally on dorsal surface of shell; aperture narrow, as long as shell; outer apertural lip curved and thickened; columella thick, somewhat straight and bowed at both ends; mantle of living snails with numerous solid spots, which are roundish or in short bars. Habitat: Lives on searods, sea pansies, and branched whip coral {Eugorgia virgulata). Depth range 1 to 96 m (3 to 315 ft).
Remarks: C mcgintyi in Andrews (1971) is Pseudocyphoma intermedium (Sowerby I, 1828). See Cate (1973); Boone (1983).
Tunnell, J.W. , Andrews, J. , Barrera, N.C. & Moretzsohn, F., 2010. Encyclopedia of Texas seashells.
Author: Jan Delsing