Crassicantharus noumeensis
| Crassicantharus noumeensis | |
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| Crassicantharus noumeensis shell | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Dolicholatiridae |
| Genus: | Crassicantharus |
| Species: | C. noumeensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Crassicantharus noumeensis (Crosse, 1870)
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Crassicantharus noumeensis, common name the gold-banded latirus, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dolicholatiridae.[1]
Description
The size of the shell varies between 8 mm and 25 mm.
(Original description in Latin) This ash-gray imperforate, elongate-fusiform shell is longitudinally obtusely ribbed and transversely decussate with prominent wrinkles and granulose lines. Three elegant orange bands adorn the shell: the first is subsutural, the second and third supramedian and nearly contiguous. The spire is elevated with a scarcely visible suture. Eight to nine convex whorls are present, the first two sub-smooth and pinkish-brown. The body whorl, slightly smaller than the spire, features six orange bands: the fourth and fifth below the middle, and the sixth, basal, originating from the columella and ending in a very short, abruptly interrupted siphonal canal. The ovate aperture is internally purplish-brown at the suture. The simple, purplish-brown peristome has a strongly biplicate columellar margin and a subarcuate, subacute outer margin. [2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Eastern Indian Ocean; off Hawaii, Japan, Mauritius, New Caledonia, Oceania, Philippines and Australia (Western Australia)
References
- ^ a b Crassicantharus noumeensis (Crosse, 1870). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
- ^ Crosse, H. (1870). "Diagnoses Molluscorum Novae Caledoniae incolarum". Journal de Conchyliologie. 18 (2): 247. Retrieved 27 February 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian Marine Shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp.
- Wilson, B. (1994) Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Vol. 2 Neogastropods. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, Western Australia, 370 pp. page(s): 67
External links
- "Crassicantharus noumeensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.