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Petaloconchus varians d'Orbigny, 1841
kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Mollusca - mollusks » class Gastropoda - gastropods » order Littorinimorpha » family Vermetidae - Worm Shells » genus Petaloconchus
ID: 587692
pID: 307983
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2008-11-13 18:00:47 - User Jiří Novák
Data last updated: 2021-02-27 19:19:28
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[[t:587692;<em>Petaloconchus varians</em>]] d'Orbigny, 1841
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id587692/"><em>Petaloconchus varians</em></a>
pID: 307983
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2008-11-13 18:00:47 - User Jiří Novák
Data last updated: 2021-02-27 19:19:28
URL: https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id587692/
Text function: [[t:587692;<em>Petaloconchus varians</em>]]
[[t:587692;<em>Petaloconchus varians</em>]] d'Orbigny, 1841
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id587692/"><em>Petaloconchus varians</em></a>
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Description
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 109731
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Created: 2021-06-10 14:51:31 - User Delsing Jan
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Text ID: 109731
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Created: 2021-06-10 14:51:31 - User Delsing Jan
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Petaloconchus varians (d'Orbigny, 1839) Variable Wormsnail
Distribution: Texas, Florida to Brazil; Bermuda.
Size: Diameter 2 mm; length 200 to 300 mm (8 to 12 inch).
Description: Color variable, orange to purplish-brown; grow in upright, irregular colonial tubes; variability in individual species and colonies depends on numerous environmental factors; in sheltered areas grow loosely and almost straight up, much like organ pipe coral, form large reefs or offshore banks; individual forms are flat upon a hard substrate and look like flattened turritellids.
Habitat: Intertidally on hard substrates at a depth of about 5 m (17 ft).
Remarks: The dark colonial forms take the form name P. nigraecens (Dall, 1884), and the flattened single forms take the form name P floridana Olsson and Harbison, 1953.
See Olsson and Harbison (1953); Abbott (1974); Rehder (1981).
Distribution: Texas, Florida to Brazil; Bermuda.
Size: Diameter 2 mm; length 200 to 300 mm (8 to 12 inch).
Description: Color variable, orange to purplish-brown; grow in upright, irregular colonial tubes; variability in individual species and colonies depends on numerous environmental factors; in sheltered areas grow loosely and almost straight up, much like organ pipe coral, form large reefs or offshore banks; individual forms are flat upon a hard substrate and look like flattened turritellids.
Habitat: Intertidally on hard substrates at a depth of about 5 m (17 ft).
Remarks: The dark colonial forms take the form name P. nigraecens (Dall, 1884), and the flattened single forms take the form name P floridana Olsson and Harbison, 1953.
See Olsson and Harbison (1953); Abbott (1974); Rehder (1981).
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 Petaloconchus varians (D'Orbigny, 1839)]Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013