Aguilaria

Aguilaria subochracea is a species of sea snailin the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1] It is the only species in the genus Aguilaria.[1]

Aguilaria
Apertural view of the shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Aguilaria
J. D. Taylor & Wells, 1994
Species:
A. subochracea
Binomial name
Aguilaria subochracea
(Smith E. A., 1877)
Synonyms[1]
  • Inquisitor subochracea (E. A. Smith, 1877)
  • Pleurotoma (Drillia) subochracea E. A. Smith, 1877 (basionym)
  • Pleurotoma subochracea Smith E. A., 1877 (original combination)
  • Ptychobela subochracea Springsteen and Leobrera 1986

Description

The length of the shell attains 39 mm, its diameter 11 mm.

The elongate, fusiform, turreted shell is very characteristically coloured. The reddish-ochre colour is uniform, except where the transverse lirations (5 in the penultimate whorl and about 22 in the body whorl) cross the ribs or plications (14 in the body whorl), where they are white and slightly nodulous. The suture is well defined by the sudden termination of the ribs. The shell contains 13 convex whorls that are set back at the top. The aperture has a flesh colour. It is ovate at the top and ends in a mediocre elongated and recurved siphonal canal. It measures about 3/7 of the total length. The outer lip is rather incrassate and sinuate in the excavation. The columella is twisted, callous and shows a small tubercle at the top.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the "China seas" and off the Philippines and Vanuatu.

References
  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Aguilaria J. D. Taylor & Wells, 1994. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578134 on 2020-07-23
  2. Smith E.A. (1877). Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 4, 19: 488–501
  • Taylor J.D. & Wells F.E. (1994). A revision of the crassispirine gastropods from Hong Kong (Gastropoda: Turridae). In: B. Morton (ed.) The malacofauna of Hong Kong and southern China III . Proceedings of the Third International workshop on the malacofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China. 101–116
  • Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
  • Li B.Q., Kilburn R.N., & Li X.Z. (2010). Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas. Journal of Natural History. 44, 699–740
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273–308
  • "Inquisitor subochracea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  • Specimen at MNHN, Paris


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