Niso splendidula
| Niso splendidula | |
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| Shell of Niso splendidula (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Eulimidae |
| Genus: | Niso |
| Species: | N. splendidula |
| Binomial name | |
| Niso splendidula (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) | |
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Niso splendidula is a species of micromollusk in the family Eulimidae. [1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 38 mm, its diameter 17 mm. It is one of the largest species in Niso known from the west coast of America.
(Original description) The brownish shell is acuminately pyramidal. The shell contains 18 whorls. The shell is near the sutures articulated in alternating white and chestnut markings. The umbilicus is large, and the aperture is angulated anteriorly. [2]
Disitribution
[edit]The species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the United States, Mexico, Panama and Ecuador
References
[edit]- ↑ Niso splendidula (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834). 4 October 2026. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ↑ Bartsch, P. (1917). "A monograph of west American melanellid mollusks". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 53 (2207): 348. Retrieved 3 October 2026.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls.
External links
[edit]- Sowerby, G.B. I (1834). Eulima. In: The Conchological Illustrations; or coloured figures of hitherto unfigured Recent shells. London: privately published. p. 52. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- Emerson, W.K. (1965). "The Eastern Pacific species of Niso (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". American Museum Novitates. 2218: 1–12.