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Fuegotrophon pallidus

Description

Fuegotrophon pallidus (Broderip, 1832)

Fig. 4E

Murex pallidus Broderip, 1832: 194

Trophon crispus — Melvill & Standen, 1907: 136

Trophon crispus var. burdwoodianum Strebel, 1908: 38, pl. 1, figs. 15a–c

Trophon (Fuegotrophon) pallidus — Powell, 1951: 157, figs. L85, N111 (synonymy, protoconch and radula)

Fuegotrophon pallidus — Pastorino, 2002: 131

Examined material. 2 an. and 10 sh. (MACN-In 40690).

Description. Shell height to 22 mm (up to 27.1 mm according to Strebel 1908); fusiform, solid. Protoconch large, smooth of 1.75 markedly convex whorls (not visible in the figure). Teleoconch of up to 3.25 whorls, markedly convex in outline; last whorl comprising about 75% of total shell height. Suture deep, impressed. Surface white; sculptured with 3 to 5 spiral cords, and 10 to 11 low primary axial ribs, undulated at their intersections; interspaces with secondary axial ribs; base with 5 to 6 additional cords. Aperture ovate, interior white; outer lip expanded, thick; columellar callus thick; siphonal canal long, somewhat oblique, moderately narrow. Operculum ovate, with subterminal nucleus; pale brownish.

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 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2618137

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Muricidae
Genus
Fuegotrophon
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Neogastropoda
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Broderip
Species
pallidus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Fuegotrophon pallidus (Broderip, 1832) sec. Luca & Zelaya, 2019

References

  • Broderip, W. G. (1832) Murex pallidus. In: Broderip, W. G. & Sowerby, G. B. I. Characters of new species of Mollusca and Conchifera, collected by Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Committee of Science and correspondence of the Zoological Society of London, Part 2, 194.
  • Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1907) The marine Mollusca of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 46, 119 - 157, 1 pl.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Pastorino, G. (2002) Systematics and phylogeny of the genus Trophon Montfort, 1810 (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from Patagonia and Antarctica: morphological patterns. Bolettino Malacologico, 4 (Supplement), 127 - 134.