Taxon profile
species
Sigapatella terraenovae Peile, 1924
kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Mollusca - mollusks » class Gastropoda - gastropods » order Littorinimorpha » family Calyptraeidae - Slipper Shells » genus Sigapatella
ID: 587611
pID: 587604
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2008-11-13 17:58:12 - User Jiří Novák
Data last updated: 2021-05-09 02:16:55
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[[t:587611;<em>Sigapatella terraenovae</em>]] Peile, 1924
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id587611/"><em>Sigapatella terraenovae</em></a>
pID: 587604
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2008-11-13 17:58:12 - User Jiří Novák
Data last updated: 2021-05-09 02:16:55
URL: https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id587611/
Text function: [[t:587611;<em>Sigapatella terraenovae</em>]]
[[t:587611;<em>Sigapatella terraenovae</em>]] Peile, 1924
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id587611/"><em>Sigapatella terraenovae</em></a>
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Author: Suter, H.
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 113797
Text Type: 7
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Created: 2022-03-01 15:10:38 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
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Text ID: 113797
Text Type: 7
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Created: 2022-03-01 15:10:38 - User Delsing Jan
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As Calyptraea alta:
Shell rather large, solid, conical, high. Sculpture consisting of oblique, close, rugose, elevated growth-striae. Colour yellowish-brown, the summit sometimes purplish. Epidermis thin and horny. Spire conical ; outlines convex. Protoconch small, of 1,5 convex, smooth, white, and polished whorls. Whorls 4, rapidly increasing, flatly convex. Suture distinct, not much impressed. Aperture entire, subcircular, polished. Basal plate white, shining, with oblique growth-lines ; margin thin, sharp. Columella short, arcuate, slightly reflexed, and forming a very narrow false, umbilicus.
Diameter, 25 mm. ; height, 16 mm. (type—Miocene fossil). Dia-meter—Maj., 32 mm. ; min., 29 mm. : height, 20 mm. (Recent speci¬men).
Animal unknown.
Type in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch. Hab.—Cape Maria van Diem en (McGahey) ; Manukau (fide W. II. Webster).
Fossil.—Miocene and Pliocene.
Shell rather large, solid, conical, high. Sculpture consisting of oblique, close, rugose, elevated growth-striae. Colour yellowish-brown, the summit sometimes purplish. Epidermis thin and horny. Spire conical ; outlines convex. Protoconch small, of 1,5 convex, smooth, white, and polished whorls. Whorls 4, rapidly increasing, flatly convex. Suture distinct, not much impressed. Aperture entire, subcircular, polished. Basal plate white, shining, with oblique growth-lines ; margin thin, sharp. Columella short, arcuate, slightly reflexed, and forming a very narrow false, umbilicus.
Diameter, 25 mm. ; height, 16 mm. (type—Miocene fossil). Dia-meter—Maj., 32 mm. ; min., 29 mm. : height, 20 mm. (Recent speci¬men).
Animal unknown.
Type in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch. Hab.—Cape Maria van Diem en (McGahey) ; Manukau (fide W. II. Webster).
Fossil.—Miocene and Pliocene.
Suter, H. 1913. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca.
Author: Jan Delsing
Links and literature
Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Sigapatella terraenovae (Peile, 1924)]Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013