Ividia aepynota

Ividia aepynota
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Family:	Pyramidellidae
Genus:	Ividia
Species:	I. aepynota
Binomial name
Ividia aepynota (Dall & Bartsch, 1909)
Synonyms
Miralda aepynota (Dall & Bartsch, 1909) Odostomia aepynota Dall & Bartsch, 1909

Ividia aepynota is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Description

The pupiform shell is translucent. Its length measures 1 mm. The whorls of the protoconch are small, obliquely immersed in the first post-nuclear turns, marked by four spiral cords. The summits of the five whorls of the teleoconch are appressed. They are marked by two strong, spiral keels between the sutures, a third at the periphery, and a fourth on the middle of the base, the last two somewhat less strong than the rest. The posterior keel forms the strong tabulation at the summit of the whorls and is strongly tuberculated, 14 tubercles appearing upon the second and 20 upon the remaining whorls. The space between the keels is marked by rather strong lines of growth. The greatest convexity coincides at the superperipheral keel. The aperture is irregularly ovate and somewhat effuse anteriorly. The posterior angle is obtuse. The thin outer lip is angulated by the keels, showing the external markings within. The columella is strong, curved, without visible fold in the aperture. The shell is reinforced by the base. The parietal wall is covered by a thin callus. ^[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off California.

Apertural view of a shell of Ividia aepynota

References

1. Ividia aepynota (Dall & Bartsch, 1909) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 3 January 2019.
2. Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN   1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.
3. Keen M. (1971). Sea shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú. (2nd edit.). Stanford University Press pp. 1064:
4. "A Monograph of West American Pyramidellid Mollusks", William Healy Dall and Paul Bartsch, Smithsonian Institution, 1909

External links

• USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection