Ancilla albisulcata

Ancilla albisulcata
Shell of Ancilla albisulcata (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdamà
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Ancillariidae
Genus:	Ancilla
Species:	A. albisulcata
Binomial name
Ancilla albisulcata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1830) [1]
Synonyms
Ancilla (Sparellina) albisulcata(G. B. Sowerby I, 1830) alternative representation Ancillaria achatinaKiener, 1844 junior subjective synonym Ancillaria albisulcataG. B. Sowerby I, 1830 · unaccepted (original combination)

Ancilla albisulcata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ancillariidae. ^[2]

Description

The shell reaches a length of 27 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is ovate-oblong, subventricose, and chestnut-colored. The spire is very short, usually mucronate, sometimes very blunt, and obscurely whitish-banded at the base. The body whorl is furnished with two bands at its base, the upper margin of which is white. The groove above the varix is inconspicuous. The varix is white, oblique, and striated. The aperture is acuminated superiorly and effuse below. The upper margin of the outer lip is usually rather thick, while the lower margin is acute and unidentate. ^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea off Israel, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, Yemen; also off Oman.

References

1. Sowerby G.B. I (1830). Species Conchylirum or concise original descriptions and accompanied by figures of all the species of Recent shells, with their varieties. G.B. Sowerby, London.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
2. Ancilla albisulcata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1830) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 28 April 2010.
3. Sowerby, G.B. I (1830). Species conchyliorum, or, Concise original descriptions and observations accompanied by figures of all the species of recent shells, with their varieties. Vol. I, part I. London: G.B. Sowerby. p. 4. Retrieved 5 August 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Boyer F. (2015). Note sur les Ancilla (Olividae : Ancillinae) du Golfe d'Aden. Xenophora Taxonomy. 9: 15-18.

External inks

• Kiener, L.C. (1843–1850). Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes. Vol. 1. Famille des Enroulées. Genres Porcelaine (Cypraea), Linné, pp. 1-166, pl. 1-57 [pp. 1-32 (1844), 33-166 (1845), pl. 7-8, 11, 14-16, 22 (1843), 1-6, 9-10, 12-13, 17-21, 23-54 (1844), 55-57 (1845)], Ovule (Ovula), Lamarck, pp. 1-27, pl. 1-5 [pp. 1-27 (1844), pl. 1-5 (1843)], Tarière (Terebellum), Lamarck, pp. 1-3, pl. 1 [pp 1-3 (1850), pl. 1 (1844)], Ancillaire (Ancillaria), Lamarck, pp. 1-31, pl. 1-6. [pp 1-31 (1844), pl. 1-6 (1843)]. Vol. 1. Paris: Rousseau & J.B. Baillière. p. 19. Retrieved 5 August 2025.