Amaea arabica

Amaea arabica
Shell of Amaea arabica (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Epitoniidae
Genus:	Amaea
Species:	A. arabica
Binomial name
Amaea arabica (Nyst, 1873)
Synonyms[1]
Amaea decussata (Lamarck, 1804) sensu Kiener, 1838 Amaea kieneri (Tapparone Canefri, 1876) Amaea sowerbyi Dunker, 1882 Cirsotrema kieneri Tapparone Canefri, 1876 Elegantiscala kieneri (Tapparone Canefri, 1876) Scalaria arabica Nyst, 1873 (original combination)

Amaea arabica is a species of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae. [1]

Taxonomy

Kiener (1838) and G.B. Sowerby II (1844) recorded this Recent species under the name "Scalaria decussata Lamarck, 1804", originally established for a fossil species from the Eocene of the Paris Basin. The names Scalaria arabica and Amaea sowerbyi were both established for Sowerby's "Scalaria decussata" (and are thus objective synonyms), and the name Cirsotrema kieneri was established for Kiener's "Scalaria decussata" (and is thus a subjective synonym). [1]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 25 mm. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean south to Mauritius; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia). [3]

References

1. Amaea arabica (Nyst, 1873). 1 October 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species. This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
2. Conchology.be: Amaea arabica
3. Australian Faunal Directory: Amaea arabica

• Cotton, B.C. (1956). "Family Scalidae". Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section. 9: 1–4.

Further reading

• Nyst, H. (1873). "Tableau synoptique et synonymique des espèces vivantes et fossiles du genre Scalaria décrites par les auteurs, avec l'indication des pays de provenance ainsi que des dépôts dans lesquels les espèces fossiles ont été recueillies". Mémoires de la Société Malacologique de Belgique. 6: 92-93. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
• Tapparone-Canefri, Cesare Maria (1876). "Rectifications dans la nomenclature de quelques espèces du genre Scalaria". Journal de Conchyliologie. 24 (2): 155.
• Dunker, W. (1882). Index molluscorum maris japonici, conscriptus et tabulis iconum xvi illustratus. Novitates Conchologicae. Abbildung und Beschreibung Neuer Conchylien Supplement VII. Cassel: T. Fischer. p. 69.
• Brown, Leonard G.; Neville, Bruce D. (10 October 2011). "Nomenclatural notes on Amaea arabica (Nyst, 1871) comb. nov. and Cirsotrema fimbriolatum (Melvill, 1897) (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae), two similar species from the Indo-Pacific faunal province" (PDF). Novapex. 12 (3): 81–86, at p. 82.