Kylix panamella

Kylix panamella
Original image of a shell of Kylix panamella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Kylix
Species:	K. panamella
Binomial name
Kylix panamella (Dall, 1908)
Synonyms [1]
Agladrillia panamella(Dall, 1908) Clathurella panamellaDall, 1908 (basionym)

Kylix panamella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. ^[1]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 14 mm, its diameter 6 mm.

(Original description) The small, polished shell is white, with, on the body whorl and in the throat, a livid pinkish tint. The shell contains 10 whorls. The protoconch is eroded, but its first whorl is flattish and appears from above discoid and glassy. The subsequent whorls are glistening, constricted and appressed at the suture. These whorls contain (on the penultimate whorl eighteen) arcuate and protractive axial ribs which extend from the suture to the siphonal canal except over the last half of the body whorl. The constriction which indicates the anal fasciole gives the posterior edge of the whorl a marginate appearance, but does not interrupt the ribs, which are very prominent in front of the fasciole at the shoulder. The whole surface is evenly sculptured by strongly incised, almost channelled lines, with wider, flat, strap-like interspaces. Near the siphonal canal these become narrower and cord-like and the channels wider, diminishing again toward the end of the canal. The spiral sculpture does not nodulate the ribs, but is minutely crenulated on the eminences by fine, even, incremental lines. The aperture is short, wide, with a deep rounded anal sulcus next the suture, a thin and much produced outer lip, a short, slightly recurved, flaring siphonal canal. The arcuate columella is callous, white and smooth, with a conspicuous nodule on the body between the sulcus and the suture. The operculum is wanting. The first half of the body whorl in the adult ends in a node or varix, indicating a previous resting stage with developed outer lip. Beyond this the whorl is destitute of ribs. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Pacific Ocean off Panama at a depth of 280 m.

References

1. Kylix panamella (Dall, 1908) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 28 October 2011.
2. W.H. Dall (1908): Reports on the Dredging Operations off the West Coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the West Coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross," during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N., Commanding. XXX VII. Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross," from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut. Commander L. M. Garrett, U. S. N., Commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and the Brachiopoda; Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard v. 43 p. 275 (1904)

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295

External links

• "Kylix panamella". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.