Amalda pacei

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Amalda pacei
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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 zeigleriNinomiya, 1987

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

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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]

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