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Famelica monoceros R. B. Watson, 1881

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Raphitomidae »  genus Famelica

Scientific synonyms

Mangilia ischna Dall, 1927

Images

Famelica monoceros

Author: Bouchet, P. & Warén, A.

Famelica monoceros

Author: Bouchet, P. & Warén, A.

Taxon in country check-lists*

Atlantic Ocean, North America: United States of America (Florida), South America: Caribbean

* List of countries might not be complete

Description

Shell minute, glassy white, slender, acute, with a four-whorled brown nucleus in which the nepionic part is prominently peripherally keeled and the axial lines of the reticulum are prominent; the whole is followed by two or more translucent whorls on which the keels gradually disappear; suture distinct, not appressed; anal sulcus shallow, the fasciole indistinct; spiral sculpture of faint sparse spiral striae only visible under magnification; axial sculpture practically none; last whorl evenly rounded, with a long twisted, straight pillar, with a minutely pervious axis; aperture narrow, outer lip thin and sharp. Length, 4.6; diameter, 1.3 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 107050.
One specimen off Fernandina.
Dall, W.H., 1927. Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' in 1885 and 1886.

Interchangeable taxa

The holotype is probably full grown, while the other specimens seen are young. The type also lacks the larval shell, and we are therefore not completely certain about the identity of our material. The similarities in sculpture and form, however, are so great that we do not hesitate to use Watson's name.
This species resembles F. catharinae considerably but that species has stronger spiral sculpture and more distant axial ribs on the larval shell.
Bouchet, P. & Warén, A., 1980. Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Turridae.
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 Famelica monoceros (Watson, 1881)]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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