Timbellus atlantideus
| Timbellus atlantideus | |
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| Shell of Timbellus atlantideus (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Timbellus |
| Species: | T. atlantideus |
| Binomial name | |
| Timbellus atlantideus | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Pterynotus atlantideus Bouchet & Warén, 1985 (basionym) | |
Timbellus atlantideus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[2]
Description
[edit]The size of an adult shell varies between 18 mm and 30 mm.
Shell solid and fusiform, with a small white protoconch and tan adult whorls with faint brownish blotches. The adult sculpture has three varices and three intervarical nodes per whorl, with distinct spinose spiral cords and faint axial ridges. Aperture is elliptical, with seven denticules on the outer lip.
T. atlantideus is most similar to T. leucas, from which it differs in its smaller protoconch, prominent intervarical nodes, and tan color.[3]
Distribution
[edit]This species is found in the Atlantic Ocean along the Azores, as well as on the Great Meteor Seamount.[3]
Ecology
[edit]T. atlantideus is suspected by Hoffmann et al. (2020) to be a potential predator of Basilissopsis athenae, a deep-water gastropod of the family Seguenziidae which also occurs in the South Azorean Seamount Chain.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico Suppl. 1: 121–296. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 24 April 2010.
- 1 2 Timbellus atlantideus (Bouchet & Warén, 1985). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 April 2011.
- 1 2 Bouchet, Philippe, Warén, Anders (1985). "Revision of the northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda)". Bollettino malacologico. Supplemento 1. Unione malacologica italiana: 123--296.
- ↑ Hoffman, Leon; Gofas, Serge; Freiwald, André (2 January 2020). "New and little-known Seguenziidae (Vetigastropoda, Gastropoda) from the South Azorean Seamount Chain". Iberus. doi:10.5281/ZENODO.4824367.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
- Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 133
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