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species
Miomelon alarconi Stuardo & Villas, 1974
kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Mollusca - mollusks » class Gastropoda - gastropods » order Neogastropoda » family Volutidae - volutes » genus Miomelon
ID: 576034
pID: 576023
Taxonomic rank: 150
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[[t:576034;<em>Miomelon alarconi</em>]] Stuardo & Villas, 1974
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pID: 576023
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2008-10-29 11:12:35 - User Jiří Novák
Data last updated: 2021-03-06 04:11:46
URL: https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id576034/
Text function: [[t:576034;<em>Miomelon alarconi</em>]]
[[t:576034;<em>Miomelon alarconi</em>]] Stuardo & Villas, 1974
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id576034/"><em>Miomelon alarconi</em></a>
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Description
Author: Jan Delsing
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Shell moderately large, aperture length equal to spire height; shoulder concave, siphonal canal broad, outer lip thin. Sculpture of fine axial ribs and less prominent spiral cords, interspaces broad. Columella with three or four plaits, the anteriormost the strongest. Color light brown under a thin brown pcriostracum; parietal glaze light brown; surface often chalky in specimens that have lost the periostracum.
Dimensions: height 74.9 mm, diameter 32.0 mm; height 89.7 mm, diameter 39.4 mm (holotype).
Radula: base of rachidian elongate, strongly tricuspidate. See also Stuardo and Villarroel (1974, fig. 2).
Dimensions: height 74.9 mm, diameter 32.0 mm; height 89.7 mm, diameter 39.4 mm (holotype).
Radula: base of rachidian elongate, strongly tricuspidate. See also Stuardo and Villarroel (1974, fig. 2).
McLean, J.H. & Andrade, H.V., 1982. Large archibenthal gastropods of central Chile: Collections from an expedition of r/v Anton Bruun and the Chilean shrimp fishery.
Interchangeable taxa
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 103392
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Miomelon alarconi is larger, heavier, and more broadly inflated and has coarser spiral sculpture than M. philippiana.
McLean, J.H. & Andrade, H.V., 1982. Large archibenthal gastropods of central Chile: Collections from an expedition of r/v Anton Bruun and the Chilean shrimp fishery.
Distribution
Author: Jan Delsing
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DISTRIBUTION. Coquimbo (29°58'S), to 37°51'S (Stuardo and Villarroel, 1974), Chile. Depth range: 125-450 m.
McLean, J.H. & Andrade, H.V., 1982. Large archibenthal gastropods of central Chile: Collections from an expedition of r/v Anton Bruun and the Chilean shrimp fishery.
Author: Jan Delsing
Links and literature
Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Miomelon alarconi Stuardo & Villas, 1974]Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013