| Amalda pacei | |
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| Shell of Amalda pacei (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 [3] | |
Amalda pacei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ancillariidae. [2]
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." [4]
Locus typicus: "Off the Northern coast of Roatan Island, Honduras." [4] ; also off Nicaragua and Jamaica. [5]