Vitularia salebrosa

Vitularia salebrosa
	shell of Vitularia salebrosa (specimen atNaturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricopsinae
Genus:	Vitularia
Species:	V. salebrosa
Binomial name
	Vitularia salebrosa; (King, 1832)
Synonyms
	Murex salebrosaKing, 1832; ; Vitularia extensaM. Smith, 1947; Vitularia salebrosa extensaM. Smith, 1947 (original combination; junior synonym);

Last updated June 19, 2023

Vitularia salebrosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 24 mm and 80 mm.

The shell is white or yellowish-brown, sometimes banded. The occasional varix is much thickened, being composed of a number of parallel, close laminae. The outer lip and the columella are tinged with yellow. The operculum is diamond-shaped, with two short sides above and two long ones below, the angles rounded. ^[4]

Distribution

V. salebrosa is found on the tropical Pacific coast of America, from Baja California to Peru. It lives under rocks in the intertidal and subtidal zones.^[5]^: 143

Feeding

This species is an ectoparasite of other molluscs. Members of the species bore a hole through the host's shell and suck its blood or digestive organ (depending on the prey) over a period of months.^[6]^[5] Consistent with their suctorial feeding habit, they have a long proboscis, reduced buccal mass, and simplified digestive system compared to other Muricids.^[5]

Prey include the oyster Ostrea cf. fisheri , the limpet-like slipper shell Crucibulum spinosum , and the vermetid gastropod Tripsycha (Eualetes) tulipa .^[6]

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References

1 2 Vitularia salebrosa (King & Broderip, 1832) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
↑ King, Phillip P. (1832). "Description of the Cirrhipeda, Conchifera and Mollusca, in a collection formed by the officers of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle employed between the years 1826 and 1830 in surveying the southern coasts of South America, including the Straits of Magalhaens and the coast of Tierra del Fuego". The Zoological Journal. 5: 332–349. BHL, volume digitised by Smithsonian. Description of M. salebrosus is on p. 347
↑ Coan, Eugene P.; Petit, Richard E.; Zelaya, Diego G. (2011). "Authorship and date of a key South American paper by Phillip P. King (1832)". The Nautilus. 125 (2): 86–88.
↑ G.W. Tryon (1880) Manual of Conchology II, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
1 2 3 Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.; Herbert, Gregory S.; Merle, Didier (2009). "Unusual anatomy of the ectoparasitic muricid Vitularia salebrosa (King and Broderip, 1832) (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the Pacific coast of Panama". The Nautilus. 123 (3): 137–147. Available online at: ResearchGate (HTML, PDF), BHL (info, scan of print version).
1 2 Herbert, Gregory S.; Dietl, Gregory P.; Fortunado, Helena; Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.; Sliko, Jennifer (2009). "Extremely slow feeding in a tropical drilling ectoparasite, Vitularia salebrosa (King and Broderip, 1832) (Gastropoda:Muricidae), on molluscan hosts from Pacific Panama". The Nautilus. 123 (3): 121–136.

External links

1845 description in English and Latin by Reeve, with illustrations by G. B. Sowerby.
Smith, M. (1947). A Recent Perplicaria and other new Panamic marine shells. The Nautilus. 61(2): 53-56, pl. 2

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[WoRMS-1] 1 2 Vitularia salebrosa (King & Broderip, 1832) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

[2] King, Phillip P. (1832). "Description of the Cirrhipeda, Conchifera and Mollusca, in a collection formed by the officers of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle employed between the years 1826 and 1830 in surveying the southern coasts of South America, including the Straits of Magalhaens and the coast of Tierra del Fuego". The Zoological Journal. 5: 332–349. BHL, volume digitised by Smithsonian. Description of M. salebrosus is on p. 347

[3] Coan, Eugene P.; Petit, Richard E.; Zelaya, Diego G. (2011). "Authorship and date of a key South American paper by Phillip P. King (1832)". The Nautilus. 125 (2): 86–88.

[4] G.W. Tryon (1880) Manual of Conchology II, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

[Simone2009-5] 1 2 3 Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.; Herbert, Gregory S.; Merle, Didier (2009). "Unusual anatomy of the ectoparasitic muricid Vitularia salebrosa (King and Broderip, 1832) (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the Pacific coast of Panama". The Nautilus. 123 (3): 137–147. Available online at: ResearchGate (HTML, PDF), BHL (info, scan of print version).

[Herbert2009-6] 1 2 Herbert, Gregory S.; Dietl, Gregory P.; Fortunado, Helena; Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.; Sliko, Jennifer (2009). "Extremely slow feeding in a tropical drilling ectoparasite, Vitularia salebrosa (King and Broderip, 1832) (Gastropoda:Muricidae), on molluscan hosts from Pacific Panama". The Nautilus. 123 (3): 121–136.

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