Hemilienardia chrysoleuca

Hemilienardia chrysoleuca is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Hemilienardia chrysoleuca
Original image of a shell of Hemilienardia chrysoleuca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Hemilienardia
Species:
H. chrysoleuca
Binomial name
Hemilienardia chrysoleuca
(J.C. Melvill, 1923)
Synonyms
  • Daphnella chrysoleuca (Melvill, 1923)
  • Glyphostoma permiscere Nowell-Usticke, 1969
  • Lienardia chrysoleuca Melvill, 1923 (original combination)
  • Truncadaphne permiscere (Nowell-Usticke, 1969)

Description

The length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 3.75 mm.

(Original description) The small shell has a columbelliform shape. It is white, spirally banded with bright yellow, centrally on the upper whorls, and twice, at the periphery and towards the base, of the body whorl. The shell contains 6 whorls, in our specimens imperfect as regards the protoconch. The three remaining whorls are angular below the impressed sutures, everywhere closely and obliquely ribbed, crossed by spiral incrassate lines, beautifully gemmate with small globular shining nodules at the points of junction, so that the whole surface is cancellate, the interstices being deep and smooth. The outer lip is thickened, crenulate without, eight or nine denticled within. The sinus is rather narrow, but deep and conspicuous. The columellar margin is slightly plicate, fairly straight. The siphonal canal is short.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Cuba, Aruba and the Virgin Islands.

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2017). Hemilienardia chrysoleuca (Melvill, 1923). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=980528 on 2017-08-30
  2. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 14-15 (1923)
  • Wiedrick S.G. (2017). Aberrant geomorphological affinities in four conoidean gastropod genera, Clathurella Carpenter, 1857 (Clathurellidae), Lienardia Jousseaume, 1884 (Clathurellidae), Etrema Hedley, 1918 (Clathurellidae) and Hemilienardia Boettger, 1895 (Raphitomidae), with the description of fourteen new Hemilienardia species from the Indo-Pacific. The Festivus. special issue: 2-45
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