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Aesopus eurytoides P. P. Carpenter, 1864

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Columbellidae - Dove Shells »  genus Aesopus

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Description

T. testa parva, turrita, gracili; albida, saepius fascia circa peripheriam maculis fusco-aurantiacis picta; anfr. nucl. mamillatis, lavibus; norm, v., effusis, subplanatis, ultimopaulum constricto; costulis radiantibus circ. xx., aperturam versus evanidis; apertura subquadrata; labro haud incrassato, interdum intus subtiliter striato, haud dentato; labio appresso; columella abrupte truncata. Long., .03; long, spir., .02; lat., .11 poll. (Carpenter.)
Variat basi fusco tincta, seu tota superficie ut in Nitidella cribraria picta. (Carpenter.)
White, with a revolving series of brown maculations on the periphery; sometimes the base is brown, or the whole surface brown-spotted; with about twenty longitudinal riblets, becoming evanescent toward the aperture; aperture subquadrate, lip scarcely thickened, striae finely within, columella abruptly truncate. Length, .3 in. (Tryon, Manual of Con¬chology. )
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.
Aesopus eurytoides Carpenter, 1864 Annals and Magasine of Natural History, series 3, 14:47. T. testa parva, turrita, gracili; albida, saepius fascia circa peripheriam maculis fusco-aurantiacis picta; anfr. nucl. mamillatis, lavibus; norm. v., effusis, subplanatis, ultimopaulum constricto; costulis radiantibus circ. xx., aperturam versus evanidis; apertura subquadrata; labro haud incrassato, interdum intus subtiliter striato, haud dentato; labio appresso; columella abrupte truncata. Long., .03; long. spir., .02; lat., .11 poll. (Carpenter.) Variat basi fusco tincta, seu tota superficie ut in Nitidella cribraria picta. (Carpenter.) White, with a revolving series of brown maculations on the periphery; sometimes the base is brown, or the whole surface brown-spotted; with about twenty longitudinal riblets, becoming evanescent toward the aper- ture; aperture subquadrate, lip scarcely thickened, striae finely within, columella abruptly truncate. Length, .3 in. (Tryon, Manual of Conchology.) TYPE in British Museum? Type locality, Cape San Lucas, Lower California. RANGE. San Diego, California, to Panama. Described as Truncaria eurytoides. [278]
Oldroyd, I. S. (1927). The marine shells of the west coast of North America.

Distribution

Type locality, Cape San Lucas, Lower California.
RANGE. San Diego, California, to Panama. Described as Truncaria eurytoides.
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.
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 Aesopus eurytoides (Carpenter, 1864)]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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