Attiliosa nodulosa

Attiliosa nodulosa
Shell of Attiliosa nodulosa (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Attiliosa
Species:	A. nodulosa
Binomial name
Attiliosa nodulosa (A. Adams, 1854)
Synonyms [1]
Attiliosa incompta(S. S. Berry, 1960) Coralliophila incomptaBerry, 1960 Peristernia nodulosaA. Adams, 1854

Attiliosa nodulosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. ^[1]

Description

The length of the holotype attains 31.5 mm, its diameter 19 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is ovate-fusiform and umbilicate (having a small navel-like depression). It is whitish and wax-colored, nearly smooth, and marked by faint transverse grooves and longitudinal knot-like folds. The spire is pyramidal and is encircled at the sutures by a row of small nodules.

The body whorl is obtusely angled in the middle. The aperture is oval, and the columella is equipped with faint folds toward the front. The outer lip is strongly lirate (ridged) on the inside, with the front margin being angled. The siphonal canal is short and recurved. ^[2]

==Distribution==This marine species occurs off Mexico, Panama and Ecuador.

References

1. Attiliosa nodulosa (A. Adams, 1854) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.
2. Adams, A. (1855). "Description of twenty-seven new species of shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1854 (22): 313. Retrieved 31 December 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Berry S.S. (1960). Notices of new eastern Pacific Mollusca.- IV. Leaflets in Malacology. 1(19): 115-122.

External links

• Vokes, E.H. (1999). "Another look at the muricine genus Attiliosa". The Veliger. 42 (4). Retrieved 30 December 2025.