Savatieria Rochebrune & Mabille 1885
Creators
Description
“ Savatieria ” meridionalis (Smith, 1881)
Fig. 4B
Lachesis meridionalis Smith, 1881: 28, pl. 4, fig. 3
Savatieria concinna Melvill & Standen, 1912: 130, fig. 17
Savatieria meridionalis— Dell, 1972: 37, fig. 16 (holotype and synonymy)
“ Savatieria ” meridionalis— Di Luca & Pastorino, 2018: 298, figs. 5A–G (holotype, synonymy and protoconch)
Examined material. 6 sh (MACN-In 40685); holotype of Lachesis meridionalis (NHMUK 1880.9.19.24), holotype of Savatieria concinna (NMSZ 1921.143.678).
Description. Shell height to 4.7 mm; fusiform, moderately solid. Protoconch large, smooth, of 2.25 markedly convex whorls, apex exposed. Teleoconch of up to 4 whorls, slightly convex in outline; last whorl comprising about 50% of total shell height. Suture deep, impressed. Surface white; sculptured with 14 to 17 strong axial ribs and 2 or 3 low, narrow spiral cords per whorl, which produce small beads at their intersections. Axial sculpture vanishing at base, which is sculptured with a delimiting, strong cord, that is visible at sutures, and 6 to 9 additional cords. Aperture ovate, interior white; columellar callus moderately thick; siphonal canal short, slightly oblique, wide.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Buccinidae
- Genus
- Savatieria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Rochebrune & Mabille
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Savatieria Rochebrune, 1885 sec. Luca & Zelaya, 2019
References
- Smith, E. A. (1881) Account of the zoological collections made during the survey of H. M. S. " Alert " in the Straits of Magellan and on the Coast of Patagonia. IV. Mollusca and molluscoidea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1881, 22 - 44.
- 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.
- Di Luca, J. & Pastorino, G. (2018) A revision of the genus Savatieria Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885: an endemic group of buccinulid gastropods from the Magellanic region. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 84 (3), 293 - 302. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / mollus / eyy 019