Fuegotrophon pallidus
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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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
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.