Amalda pacei

Amalda pacei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Ancillariidae
Genus: Amalda
Species:
A. pacei
Binomial name
Amalda pacei
Petuch, 1987[1]
Synonyms[2]

Amalda zeigleri Ninomiya, 1987

Amalda pacei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ancillariidae.[2]

Description

Original description: "Shell stocky, heavy, fusiform in shape; spire elevated; main section of body whorl with silky texture; suture bounded by wide band of enamel along shoulder region; spire whorls comprising two distinct zones, lower one with same silky texture of main body whorl, upper one with shiny enameled texture; fascicular band well-developed, surrounding anterior end of shell; shell color pale salmon-orange on main section of body whorl and lower zone of spire; enameled sub-sutural shoulder and fascicular bands bright orange, marked with evenly-spaced, dark orange-brown flammules; columella white, with one large twisted plication; interior of aperture pale salmon-orange; protoconch pale salmon in color, rounded, dome-shaped; operculum large, oval, dark tan in color."[3]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Off the Northern coast of Roatan Island, Honduras."[3]; also off Nicaragua and Jamaica. [4]

References

  1. ^ Petuch, E.J. (1987) New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas. The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 154 pp.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  2. ^ a b Amalda pacei Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
  3. ^ a b Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 69. Publ: CERF
  4. ^ Gbif.org: distribution


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