Calliostoma moebiusi Strebel 1905
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Description
Calliostoma cf. moebiusi Strebel, 1905
Fig. 2E
Calliostoma möbiusi Strebel, 1905a: 133, pl. 5, fig. 22; Melvill & Standen, 1912: 121
Examined material. 1 an. and 5 sh. (MACN-In 40665).
Description. Shell width to 10.1 mm (up to 16.6 mm according to Strebel 1905a); pyramidal, solid. Protoconch of 1.25 convex whorls. Teleoconch of up to 5 whorls, almost straight in outline; last whorl comprising about 70% of total shell height. Suture impressed. Surface pink, with narrow, white spiral bands; firsts two whorls sculptured with 3 or 4 spiral cords, vanishing on subsequent whorls; last whorl with a weak cord at base. In addition, faint growth lines are evident along all teleoconch whorls. Aperture subquadrate, interior iridescent; columellar callus expanded over the umbilical area. Operculum rounded, multispiral; pale brown, translucent.
Remarks. The material studied here resembles C. moebiusi Strebel, 1905. However it differs by having teleoconch sculpture less developed.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Calliostomatidae
- Genus
- Calliostoma
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Archaeogastropoda
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Strebel
- Species
- moebiusi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Calliostoma moebiusi Strebel, 1905 sec. Luca & Zelaya, 2019
References
- Strebel, H. (1905 a) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna der Magalhaen-Provinz 2. Die Trochiden. Zoologische Jahrbucher, 8 (Supplement), 121 - 166, pl. 5.
- 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.