Hormospira
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| Hormospira | |
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| Shells of Hormospira maculosa (specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Centert) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Hormospira (Sowerby I, 1834) |
| Species: | H. maculosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Hormospira maculosa (G.B. Sowerby I, 1834)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Hormospira is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae, containing the single species Hormospira maculosa.[1]
Description
[edit | edit source]The length of the shell attains 50 mm its diameter 13 mm.
The shell is smooth, or with light revolving striae. The shoulder of the whorls are angulated and defined by a row of tubercles. The shell is flesh-colored, light brown, or light purplish, with chestnut maculations.[2]
Distribution
[edit | edit source]This marine species occurs off Sonora, Mexico.
References
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- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
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External links
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- Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273–308
- 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.
- Kantor Yu.I. (1988) On the anatomy of Pseudomelatominae (Gastropoda, Toxoglossa, Turridae) with notes on functional morphology and phylogeny of the subfamily. Apex 3(1): 1–19
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