Colpospirella algida
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Description
Colpospirella algida (Melvill & Standen, 1912)
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Turritella algida Melvill & Standen, 1912: 126, fig. 14
Colpospirella algida — Powell, 1951: 113; Castellanos, 1982a: 41
Examined material. 42 sh. (MACN-In 40668).
Description. Shell height to 6.15 mm; turritelliform, moderately solid. Protoconch of 2.25 convex whorls. Teleoconch of up to 6 whorls, angulated in outline; last whorl comprising about 45% of total shell height. Suture deeply impressed. Surface white; sculptured with 2 or 3 primary spiral cords per whorl; the one located at the middle of the whorl is stronger, producing a moderate keel; interspaces with 1 or 2 secondary spiral cords. In addition, faint growth lines are evident along all teleoconch whorls. Aperture ovate, interior white; columellar callus narrow, slightly expanded over the umbilical area.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Turritellidae
- Genus
- Colpospirella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Neotaenioglossa
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Melvill & Standen
- Species
- algida
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Colpospirella algida (Melvill, 1912) sec. Luca & Zelaya, 2019
References
- Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1912) The marine Mollusca of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Part 2. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 48, 105 - 140, 1 pl.
- Powell, A. W. B. (1951) Antarctic and Subantarctic Mollusca: Pelecypoda and Gastropoda collected by the ships of the Discovery Committee during the years 1926 - 1937. Discovery Reports, 26, 49 - 196, pls. 5 - 10.
- Castellanos, Z. J. (1982 a) Los moluscos de las campanas del " Shinkai Maru ". Neotropica, 28 (79), 41 - 46.