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Onoba fuegoensis

Description

Onoba fuegoensis (Strebel, 1908)

Fig. 3G

Rissoa (Cingula ?) fuegoensis Strebel, 1908: 56, pl. 6, figs. 90a, b

Rissoa (Onoba) fuegoensis — Melvill & Standen, 1912: 124

Onoba fuegoensis — Ponder & Worsfold, 1994: 43, figs. 23e, f, 24a–c, 30 (protoconch and radula)

Examined material. 2 an. and 9 sh. (MACN-In 40672).

Description. Shell height to 2.5 mm (up to 3.05 mm according to Ponder & Worsfold 1994); elongate-conical, moderately solid. Protoconch large, of 1.75 convex whorls, microscopically sculptured. Teleoconch of up to 3.5 whorls, markedly convex in outline; last whorl comprising about 55% of total shell height. Suture impressed. Surface whitish, translucent in well preserved specimens; sculptured with 3 to 5 primary spiral cords per whorl, and 5 or 6 additional cords at the base; interspaces with delicate spiral threads. Aperture ovate, laterally expanded towards the base, interior white; columellar callus moderately thick, slightly reflected. Operculum ovate, paucispiral; yellowish, translucent.

Notes

Published as part of Luca, Javier Di & Zelaya, Diego G., 2019, Gastropods from the Burdwood Bank (southwestern Atlantic): an overview of species diversity, pp. 41-78 in Zootaxa 4544 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2618137

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Rissoidae
Genus
Onoba
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Littorinimorpha
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Strebel
Species
fuegoensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Onoba fuegoensis (Strebel, 1908) sec. Luca & Zelaya, 2019

References

  • Strebel, H. (1908) Die Gastropoden (mit Ausnahme de nackten Opisthobranchier). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Sudpolar-Expedition 1901 - 1903, 6 (1), 1 - 112, pls. 1 - 6.
  • 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.
  • Ponder, W. F. & Worsfold, T. M. (1994) A review of the rissoiform gastropods of Southwestern South America (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Contributions in Science of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, 445, 1 - 63.