Hemilienardia ocellata

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

Hemilienardia ocellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Hemilienardia
Species:
H. ocellata
Binomial name
Hemilienardia ocellata
(Jousseaume, 1883)
Synonyms[1]
  • Glyphostoma ocellatum (Jousseaume, 1884)
  • Lienardia ocellata Jousseaume, 1883 (original combination)
  • Lienardia (Hemilienardia) ocellata Jousseaume, 1884
  • Mangilia ocellata (Jousseaume, 1884)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 3 mm and 11 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mauritius, Fiji, the Philippines, Taiwan and Queensland, Australia.

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Hemilienardia ocellata (Jousseaume, 1883). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=867647 on 2019-07-03
  • Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1897. Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs Hadfield, with list of species. Part 3. Journal of Conchology 8: 396–421
  • Hedley, C. 1909. Mollusca from the Hope Islands, north Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34(1): 420–466, pls 36–44
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae, an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with list of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 5: 1–184, pls 1–23
  • 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 descriptionof fourteen new Hemilienardia species from the Indo-Pacific. The Festivus. special issue: 2-45.

-* Jousseaume, F. (1883). Diagnose d'un nouveau genre de pleurotomidé. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 8: xl-xli


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.