Tegula mariana

Tegula mariana
Drawing with two views of a shell of Tegula mariana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Tegulidae
Genus: Tegula (gastropod)
Species: T. mariana
Binomial name
Tegula mariana
(Dall, 1919)
Synonyms
  • Chlorostoma coronulatum C. B. Adams, Pilsbry, 1889
  • Chlorostoma coronulatum var. turbinatum Pease, Pilsbry, 1889
  • Omphalius marianus Dall, 1919 (original description)
  • Omphalius turbinatus Pease, 1869
  • Tegula (Agathistoma) mariana mariana (Dall, 1919)
  • Tegula (Omphalius) mariana Dall, Pilsbry and Lowe, 1932

Tegula mariana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.[1][2]

Description

The height of the shell varies between 8.9 mm, its diameter 10.5 mm. The shell has a shiny surface. Its color is dingy white, with broad radiating flames of brown or red above irregularly maculated below, sometimes nearly unicolored, pinkish, with the lirae of the base articulated with red and white dots. The spire is either conic or depressed. The sutures are either simple, linear, or somewhat canaliculate. There is a concavity in the subsutural area. The about 5 whorls are spirally transversed by excessively minute spiral striae. The body whorl has an acute nodulous carina at the periphery, and another angulation or keel at the middle of the upper surface of the whorl and continued upon the spire, and which is usually nodose on the body whorl. There is usually, too, a third ridge or carina, generally coarsely nodose, between the two already described. The base of the shell is more or less convex, generally shows microscopic concentric striae under a lens, and has about 5 low, narrow, separated spiral lirulae. The columella and the inside of the umbilicus are either green or white.[3]

This species is thus characterized by the two angulations on the body whorl and the fine, spiral sculpture between the two keels.[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean and is common under rocks at high-tide level from Baja California, Mexico, to Peru

References

  1. ↑ WoRMS (2012). Tegula mariana Dall, 1919. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575632 on 2012-09-01
  2. ↑ Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
  3. ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Chlorostoma coronulatum)
  4. ↑ Hertlein & Strong, Marine Mollusks collected during the "Askoy" expedition to Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in 1941; Bulletin of the America: 2n museum of Natural History, v. 107 (1955)
External identifiers for Tegula mariana
NCBI 80352
WoRMS 575632
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