Lithopoma brevispina

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Lithopoma brevispina
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Drawing with two views of a shell of Lithopoma brevispina
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Lithopoma
Species:
L. brevispina
Binomial name
Lithopoma brevispina
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms [1]
  • Astraea brevispina(Lamarck, 1822)
  • Astraea diffidentiaWeisbord, N.E., 1962 (synonymy uncertain)
  • Astralium basaleOlsson, 1922
  • Astralium brevispina(Lamarck, 1822)
  • Trochus auripigmentumPhilippi, R.A., 1850 (synonymy uncertain)
  • Trochus brevispinaLamarck, 1822 (original combination)
  • Uvanilla brevispina(Lamarck, 1822)

Lithopoma brevispina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. [1] [2]

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Description

The size of the shell varies between 40 mm and 60 mm. The imperforate, solid shell has a turbinate shape. The 6-7 whorls 6- are, flat above, obliquely costate below the sutures, then with several revolving series of granules. The periphery is sharply carinate, armed with short triangular spines which festoon the sutures and project more or less, about 10–13 in number on the body whorl. The base of the shell is a little rounded, radiately lamellose striate and concentrically lirate with three to five lirae, mostly tuberculate, especially in the young. The oval aperture is transverse, channelled at its outer angle. The short columella is arched. The place of the umbilicus is excavated, whitish, bounded by an intensely orange vermillion tract. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mexico to Colombia and off the Virgin Islands, found at depths of about 10 m.

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References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Lithopoma brevispina (Lamarck, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581680 on 2012-09-01
  2. ↑ Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1-82, pls 104-245.
  3. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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