Hemilienardia purpurascens
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Hemilienardia purpurascens | |
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Original image of Hemilienardia purpurascens | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Raphitomidae |
Genus: | Hemilienardia |
Species: | H. purpurascens
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Binomial name | |
Hemilienardia purpurascens (Dunker, 1871)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Hemilienardia purpurascens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
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]
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Distribution
This marine species occurs off Samoa.
References
- ^ a b 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
- ^ 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.
External links
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
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