Hindsiclava perspirata

Hindsiclava perspirata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Hindsiclava perspirata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Hindsiclava
Species:
H. perspirata
Binomial name
Hindsiclava perspirata
(W. H. Dall, 1890)
Synonyms
  • † Drillia alesidota perspirata W. H. Dall, 1890

Description

The length of the shell attains 29 mm, its diameter 10 mm.

(Original description) This species differs from the recent Hindsiclava alesidota (Dall, 1889) and Hindsiclava macilenta (Dall, 1889) in its shorter whorls, its proportionally greater stoutness, coarser and rounder spiral sculpture, a more constricted anal fasciole and a stronger and more angular band between the fasciole and the suture. The number of whorls is about the same in both.[2]

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Pliocene strata in Florida, USA; age range: 3.6 to 0.781 Ma

References
  1. Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae
  2. W. H. Dall (1890), Tertiary Fauna of Florida; Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia vol. 3 (1-3) (1890–1895) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone andadjoiningg parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299-452
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