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| Amalda pacei | |
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| Shell of Amalda pacei (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Ancillariidae |
| Genus: | Amalda |
| Species: | A. pacei |
| Binomial name | |
| Amalda pacei | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Amalda zeigleri Ninomiya, 1987[3] | |
Amalda pacei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ancillariidae.[2]
Description
[edit]Original description: "Shell stocky, heavy, fusiform in shape; spire elevated; main section of body whorl with silky texture; suture bounded by wide band of enamel along shoulder region; spire whorls comprising two distinct zones, lower one with same silky texture of main body whorl, upper one with shiny enameled texture; fascicular band well-developed, surrounding anterior end of shell; shell color pale salmon-orange on main section of body whorl and lower zone of spire; enameled sub-sutural shoulder and fascicular bands bright orange, marked with evenly-spaced, dark orange-brown flammules; columella white, with one large twisted plication; interior of aperture pale salmon-orange; protoconch pale salmon in color, rounded, dome-shaped; operculum large, oval, dark tan in color."[4]
Distribution
[edit]Locus typicus: "Off the Northern coast of Roatan Island, Honduras.";[4] also off Nicaragua and Jamaica.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Petuch, E.J. (1987) New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas. The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 154 pp.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
- 1 2 Amalda pacei Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
- ↑ Ninomiya, Taizo (1987). "Three new species of the genus Amalda from Japan, Caribbean Sea and Southwestern Australia (Gastropoda: Olividae)". Venus (Japanese Journal of Malacology). 46 (3): 137–146 [139]. doi:10.18941/venusjjm.46.3_137.
- 1 2 Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 69. Publ: CERF
- ↑ Gbif.org: distribution