Cantharidus polychroma

Cantharidus polychroma
Apertural view of a shell of Cantharidus polychroma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Cantharidus
Species: C. polychroma
Binomial name
Cantharidus polychroma
(A. Adams, 1851)
Synonyms[1]
  • Calliostoma polychroma Pilsbry, H.A. 1889
  • Calliostoma vexillum Pilsbry, H.A. 1889
  • Cantharidus (Cantharidus) gilberti (Montrouzier in Fischer, 1878)
  • Cantharidus (Jujubinus) gilberti (Montrouzier in Fischer, 1878)
  • Cantharidus (Thalotia) polychroma Schepman, M.M. 1908
  • Cantharidus gilberti (Montrouzier in Fischer, 1878)
  • Jujubinus gilberti (Montrouzier in Fischer, 1878)
  • Jujubinus obscurus Thiele, J., 1930
  • Kanekotrochus gilberti Montrouzier, R.P. in Fischer, 1878
  • Trochus gilberti Montrouzier in Fischer, 1878
  • Ziziphinus polychroma A. Adams, 1851 (original combination)
  • Ziziphinus polychromus sic

Cantharidus polychroma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 12 mm and 18 mm. The perforate shell has a turreted-conic shape. It is, green, painted with undulating white bands, varied with buff angular lines. The plane whorls are subimbricating. They are ornamented with a slightly prominent articulated margin, subdistant impressed transverse lines, and longitudinally substriate. The body whorl is angulate The base of the shell is a little convex, sculptured with cinguli articulated with buff The aperture is subquadrate and green inside. The columella is straight subtruncate at its base.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indo-Pacific and off Australia

References

External identifiers for Cantharidus polychroma
WoRMS 598229
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