Crassicantharus noumeensis

Crassicantharus noumeensis
Crassicantharus noumeensis shell
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Dolicholatiridae
Genus:	Crassicantharus
Species:	C. noumeensis
Binomial name
Crassicantharus noumeensis (Crosse, 1870)
Synonyms [1]
Latirus aureocinctusG. B. Sowerby III, 1875 Peristernia aureocincta(G. B. Sowerby III, 1875) Teralatirus noumeensisCrosse, 1870 Turbinella noumeensisCrosse, 1870 (original combination)

Crassicantharus noumeensis, common name the gold-banded latirus, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dolicholatiridae. ^[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 8 mm and 25 mm.

(Original description in Latin) This ash-gray imperforate, elongate-fusiform shell is longitudinally obtusely ribbed and transversely decussate with prominent wrinkles and granulose lines. Three elegant orange bands adorn the shell: the first is subsutural, the second and third supramedian and nearly contiguous. The spire is elevated with a scarcely visible suture. Eight to nine convex whorls are present, the first two sub-smooth and pinkish-brown. The body whorl, slightly smaller than the spire, features six orange bands: the fourth and fifth below the middle, and the sixth, basal, originating from the columella and ending in a very short, abruptly interrupted siphonal canal. The ovate aperture is internally purplish-brown at the suture. The simple, purplish-brown peristome has a strongly biplicate columellar margin and a subarcuate, subacute outer margin. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Eastern Indian Ocean; off Hawaii, Japan, Mauritius, New Caledonia, Oceania, Philippines and Australia (Western Australia)

References

1. Crassicantharus noumeensis (Crosse, 1870) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 18 April 2010.
2. Crosse, H. (1870). "Diagnoses Molluscorum Novae Caledoniae incolarum". Journal de Conchyliologie. 18 (2): 247. Retrieved 27 February 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian Marine Shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp.
• Wilson, B. (1994) Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Vol. 2 Neogastropods. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, Western Australia, 370 pp. page(s): 67

External links

• "Crassicantharus noumeensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.