Aporrhais senegalensis

Aporrhais senegalensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Aporrhaidae
Genus:	Aporrhais
Species:	A. senegalensis
Binomial name
Aporrhais senegalensis Gray, 1838
Synonyms
Aporrhais franchetiRochebrune, 1883

Aporrhais senegalensis is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aporrhaidae, the pelican's foot snails or pelican's foot shells. ^[1]

Description

(Original description) The shell is regular and features spiral striations. The upper whorls exhibit a single central series of small nodules, while the body whorl possesses two subcentral nodule series. A third series of much smaller tubercles is present anterior to (in front of) the main nodules. The outer lip is characterized by two sharp, expanded lobes. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off West Africa.

References

1. Aporrhais senegalensis Gray, 1838 . 10 October 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Gray, J.E. (1838). "On some new species of quadrupeds and shells". Annals of Natural History. 1 (1): 27. Retrieved 10 October 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Gofas, S., Afonso, J.P. & Brandào, M. (1985). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp. Printed without date.
• Rolán E. (2005). Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. ConchBooks. Hackenheim. ISBN 3-325319-73-2. 455 pp
• Bernard P.A. (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140 pp, 75 plates, illus.
• Wieneke, U. & Liverani, V. (2019). Review of the Recent Endemic West African Aporrhaidae (Gastropoda: Stromboidea), with the re-establishment of Aporrhais elegantissima PARENZAN, 1970 and records of putative hybridization in the genus Aporrhais. Conchylia. 50(1-4), 147-162.

External links

• Rochebrune, A. -T. de (1883). "Diagnoses de mollusques nouveaux propres à la Sénégambie". Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris. 7: 178. Retrieved 10 October 2025.