Hindsiclava tippetti

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Hindsiclava tippetti
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Shell of Hindsiclava tippetti (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Hindsiclava
Species:
H. tippetti
Binomial name
Hindsiclava tippetti
Petuch, 1987

Hindsiclava tippetti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. [1]

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Description

Original description: "Shell large for genus, elongate, with elevated spire; shell ornamented with numerous equal-sized axial and spiral cords that are arranged in cancellate pattern; intersection of axial and spiral cord producing large, rounded bead; early whorls with large beaded axial ribs; axial ribs are replaced with cancellate-beaded sculpture on later whorls; subsutural area with large, wide, raised band and channeled unsculptured area that corresponds to anal notch; anal notch wide, deep; aperture narrow; shell color dark brown with tan beads; early whorls and protoconch dark brown; interior of aperture brown." [2]

The length of the shell varies between 27 mm and 75 mm.

Distribution

Locus typicus: "35 m. depth, Rosalind Bank, Honduras." [3]

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Honduras.

References

  1. ↑ Hindsiclava tippetti Petuch, 1987 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 4 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 76. Publ: CERF
  3. ↑ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 76. Publ: CERF


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