Dentistyla dentifera

Dentistyla dentifera
Original drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Dentistyla dentifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Chilodontidae
Genus: Dentistyla
Species: D. dentifera
Binomial name
Dentistyla dentifera
(Dall, 1889)
Synonyms
  • Antillachelus dentiferum Dall, 1889 (original combination)
  • Calliostoma asperiimum var. dentiferum Dall, 1889

Dentistyla dentifera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chilodontidae.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 4 mm and 8 mm. The sculpture, compared to Dentistyla asperrima, is more strongly and exclusively nodulous. A strong blunt tooth is prominent on the columella just within the aperture and above the base of the shell. The outer lip is lirate within.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, off Barbados and in the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina.

References

  1. ↑ Dentistyla dentifera (Dall, 1889).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Dall W. H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40
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