Vaceuchelus foveolatus

Vaceuchelus foveolatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Chilodontidae
Genus: Vaceuchelus
Species: V. foveolatus
Binomial name
Vaceuchelus foveolatus
(A. Adams, 1853) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Euchelus angulatus Pearse, 1867
  • Euchelus (Herpetopoma) foveolatus (A. Adams, 1851)
  • Herpetopoma foveolatum (A. Adams, 1853)
  • Monodonta foveolata A. Adams, 1853

Vaceuchelus foveolatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chilodontidae.[2][3]

Description

The height of the shell reaches 8 mm. The small, solid, white, very minutely perforated shell has a globose-conic shape. The spire is short. The four whorls are convex and encircled by strong spiral ribs. The interstices between them are deeply, coarsely pitted by the prominence of strong, regular, longitudinal lamellae, continuous over the spirals. The penultimate and next earlier whorls have 3 spirals (the subsutural one sometimes subobsolete). The outer lip is inserted upon the fourth. On the body whorl near the aperture there are 7, but sometimes more, by reason of the interpolation of one or two interstitial riblets on the upper surface. Two or three submedian ribs are generally more prominent. The sutures are canaliculate. The aperture is rounded. The columella is slightly concave, rather wide and flat, but not toothed at base. The umbilical perforation is minute.[4]

This is a very distinct little shell, with coarsely latticed sculpture.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Northern Queensland, Australia and the Philippines.

References

  1. ↑ A. Adams., P. Z. S. 1851, p. 176.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Vaceuchelus foveolatus (A. Adams, 1853). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547236 on 2013-04-14
  3. ↑ Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands. Visaya Supplement 2: 1-228.
  4. ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
External identifiers for Vaceuchelus foveolatus
Encyclopedia of Life 18652613
WoRMS 547236
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