Hemilienardia purpurascens

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

Hemilienardia purpurascens
Original image of Hemilienardia purpurascens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Hemilienardia
Species:
H. purpurascens
Binomial name
Hemilienardia purpurascens
(Dunker, 1871)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clathurella pulchella Garrett, 1873 (invalid: junior homonym of Clathurella pulchella Pease, 1860)
  • Clathurella purpurascens Dunker, 1871 (original combination)
  • Glyphostoma purpurascens (Dunker, 1871)
  • Lienardia purpurascens (Dunker, 1871)

Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm.

The shell is rose-red to violaceous, with a central white band. The outer lip is 5-6 toothed within. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Samoa.

References
  1. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Hemilienardia purpurascens (Dunker, 1871). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=980560 on 2019-07-03
  2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • 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.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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