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Genota mitriformis Wood, 1828

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Borsoniidae »  genus Genota

Scientific synonyms

Genota mitraeformis Wood, 1842
Genota vafra E. R. Sykes, 1905

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Genota mitriformis

Author: Jan Delsing

Genota mitriformis

Author: Jan Delsing

Genota mitriformis

Author: Jan Delsing

Genota mitriformis

Author: Jan Delsing

Genota mitriformis

Author: Jan Delsing

Genota mitriformis

Author: Jan Delsing

Genota mitriformis

Author: Jan Delsing

Genota mitriformis

Author: Jan Delsing

Genota mitriformis

Author: Jan Delsing

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Description

Genota vafra: Shell elongate, mitriform, spire well produced; apex acute; pale yellow, with brown bands; sculpture, protoconch smooth, the next few whorls marked by spirals with a few oblique longitudinals, the whorls slightly angulated in the middle ; gradually these longitudinals become stronger, until on the penultimate whorl there is a row of nodules just below the suture, followed by a few spirals and another row of larger nodules below; the last whorl has, in addition to this sculpture, a number of smaller nodules arranged in regular spiral, as also arcuate longitudinal, rows, these being continued to the base of the shell ; whorls 10, plano-convex ; aperture elongate, narrow, fairly straight, with a well-marked, wide notch below the suture.
Long. 31.5 mm. ; diam. max. 10 mm.
Sykes, 1905. Descriptions of new forms of Marginellidae and Pleurotomidae. (Original description)
Kiener described this species in French. Please click french flag.

Interchangeable taxa

Genota vafra: Related both to G. mitriforma, Kien., and G. papalis, Reeve. As compared with these the present shell may be separated by its less produced spire, the conspicuous rows of granules or nodules on the last whorl, and the well-marked double row of nodules on the upper whorls.
Sykes, 1905. Descriptions of new forms of Marginellidae and Pleurotomidae. (Original description)

Distribution

Genota vafra: West Africa.
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 Genota mitriformis (Wood, 1828)]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013
EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Genota vafra Sykes, 1905]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013
CZ Pfleger V. (1999): České názvy živočichů III. Měkkýši (Mollusca), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 108 pp. [as Genota mitriformis (WOOD, 1828)]
Data retrieved on: 11 November 2013

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