Ammonicera consilii

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Ammonicera consilii
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Shell of Ammonicera consilii (holotype)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Omalogyridae
Genus: Ammonicera
Species:
A. consilii
Binomial name
Ammonicera consilii
Antit, Gofas & Taviani, 2024

Ammonicera consilii is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Omalogyridae. [1]

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Description

The size of the shell attains 0.6 mm.

(Original description) A minute, planispiral shell consisting of two whorls. The protoconch has fewer than one whorl, transitioning seamlessly into the teleoconch. The protoconch features a prominent broad ridge occupying approximately one-third of the exposed whorl, adjacent to the suture; this ridge sharply separates from a flat surface surrounding the nucleus. Under high magnification, the ridge appears corrugated, with indistinct spiral-oriented scars.

The teleoconch comprises slightly more than one whorl. The shell's periphery is rounded, with narrow spiral sulci visible only under SEM. Adapical and abapical surfaces are demarcated from the periphery by a sulcus and feature a well-defined, flat nodose spiral cord extending from the ridge of the protoconch. Between this cord and the suture lies a broad depression where the nodules are extended by faint folds that do not reach the suture. The nodose cord is situated at the outer two-thirds of the whorl when viewed from both apical and abapical perspectives, with the spacing between nodes approximately equal to their diameter.

The aperture is simple and rounded. The shell is cream-colored with three distinct brown lines: one at the periphery and one along the nodose cord on each side. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea in the Strait of Sicily.

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References

  1. Ammonicera consilii Antit, Gofas & Taviani, 2024 . 20 January 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
  2. Antit, M.; Gofas, S.; Taviani, M. (2024). "Skerki Bank (Strait of Sicily) is a hotspot of molluscan biodiversity: multiple new records for Tunisian waters and description of four new species". Frontiers in Marine Science. 11 (1451567): 1–17. Retrieved 20 January 2025.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)CC BY icon-80x15.png This article incorporates text from this source, which is under a CC BY 4.0 license.