Anolacia mauritiana

Anolacia mauritiana
Shell of Anolacia mauritiana (specimen at theNatural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Ancillariidae
Genus:	Anolacia
Species:	A. mauritiana
Binomial name
Anolacia mauritiana (G.B. Sowerby I, 1830) [1]
Synonyms [2]
Ancilla mauritianaG.B. Sowerby I, 1830 Ancillaria mauritianaG.B. Sowerby I, 1830 Ancillaria torosaG.B. Sowerby II, 1859 Ancillaria volutellaDeshayes, 1831 Cylindrus torosusMeuschen, 1787 (unavailable name: published in a rejected work)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 45 mm.

(Original description in Latin of Ancillaria torosa) The shell is subcylindrical, longitudinally striated, and can be chestnut, pale tawny, or white. The spire is short, with subquadrate (somewhat square-shaped) whorls. The lower band is simple. The aperture is large, wide at the base, and hardly notched. The varix is white, lightly striated, and elongated.

This species is remarkable for the width and length of the aperture in proportion to its very short spire. ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Somalia.

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. Anolacia mauritiana (G.B. Sowerby I, 1830) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 28 April 2010.
3. Sowerby, G.B. II (1859). Monograph of the genus Ancillaria. In: G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of Genera of Shells, vol. 3 (19). London: privately published. p. 58. Retrieved 16 August 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• Deshayes, G.P. (1831). "Ancillaire volutelle. Ancillaria volutella". Magasin de Zoologie. 1: 31.