Vaceuchelus delpretei

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Vaceuchelus delpretei
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Drawing with two views of a shell of Vaceuchelus delpretei
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Chilodontaidae
Genus: Vaceuchelus
Species:
V. delpretei
Binomial name
Vaceuchelus delpretei
(Caramagna, 1888) [1]
Synonyms [2]

Vaceuchelus delpretei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chilodontidae. [2] [3]

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Description

The shell grows to a height of 4 mm. The umbilicate, rather thick, whitish, subvitreous shell has a conic-depressed shape. The apex is obtuse. The first 3 whorls are planate above. They are elegantly ornamented with elevated spiral ribs and longitudinal striae. The first whorl is nearly smooth. The body whorl is double as long as the spire It is tumid, dilated and ornamented with 3 elevated cinguli on the lower part, 2 less elevated ones above. The base of the shell has 6 granulose, minutely striated, concentric cinguli. The thin outer lip is denticulated by the external sulci. The columella is smooth, straight, excavated at its base, and scarcely forming a denticle The white aperture is oblique and sulcate within. [4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea.

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References

  1. ↑ Caramagna, Bull. Soc. Mal. Ital. xiii, p. 131, t. 8, f. 9, 1888.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Vaceuchelus delpretei (Caramagna, 1888). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547170 on 2013-04-14
  3. ↑ Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands. Visaya Supplement 2: 1-228.
  4. ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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