Hindsiclava tippetti

Hindsiclava tippetti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Hindsiclava tippetti
Shell of Hindsiclava tippetti (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Hindsiclava
Species:
H. tippetti
Binomial name
Hindsiclava tippetti
Petuch, 1987

Description

The length of the shell varies between 27 mm and 75 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Honduras.

References

  • Petuch, E.J. 1987. New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas.The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 154 pp.
  • B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1–221
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • "Hindsiclava tippetti". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Kabat, Alan R. "Donn Lloyd Tippett (January 14, 1924 – January 29, 2014)." American Conchologist 42.2 (2014).


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