Africotriton crebriliratus

Africotriton crebriliratus
Shell of Africotriton crebriliratus (holotype)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Africotriton
Species:	A. crebriliratus
Binomial name
Africotriton crebriliratus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903)
Synonyms [1]
Colubraria crebrilirata(G. B. Sowerby III, 1903) · Epidromus crebriliratusG.B. Sowerby III, 1903

Africotriton crebriliratus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 14 mm, its diameter 5 mm.

(Original description) The shell is narrowly oblong, with a fulvous hue. It is faintly banded and variegated with brown, becoming pearly white at the apex. The spire is elongately acuminated, slightly convex at the sides. There are 5½ whorls, with the first 1½ whorls smooth and shining, and the subsequent whorls rather convex, irregularly plicate, and varicose.

The shell is spirally finely grooved, and the suture is scarcely impressed. The body whorl is oblong, with rather straight sides and a very short rostrum at the base. The aperture is rather wide in the middle and narrow at each end. The columella is covered with a thin white callus that stands erect over the umbilical region, slightly and irregularly pustulate. The siphonal canal is short, narrow, and slightly recurved. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Port Alfred, South Africa.

References

1. Africotriton crebriliratus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 6 April 2010.
2. Sowerby, G. B. III. (1903). Mollusca of South Africa. Marine Investigations in South Africa. 2(3): 213-232, pls 3-5 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Beu, A. G.; Maxwell, P. A. (1987). A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin. 54: 1-140.
• Steyn, D. G.; Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
• Hemmen, J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp
• Verhecken A. (2020). New and poorly known species of Cancellariidae (Neogastropoda: Cancellarioidea) from the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific. Gloria Maris. 59(2): 40-89.

External links

• Conchology.be: image