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Cancellaria richardpetiti

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Cancellaria richardpetiti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Cancellaria
Species:
C. richardpetiti
Binomial name
Cancellaria richardpetiti
Petuch, 1987

Cancellaria richardpetiti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

Description

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Original description: "Shell thin, fragile, composed of 6 whorls; spire protracted, body whorl elongated; body whorl and spire whorls ornamented with longitudinal ribs; 32 ribs on body whorl, running from suture to anterior tip; ribs on spire whorls more prominent, producing varix-like appearance; longitudinal ribs intersected by raised, spiral cords; large bead produced where rib and cord intersect, forming general appearance of longitudinal lines of beads; protoconch very large; aperture narrow; columella with 3 folds, posteriormost being the largest; color white, with 3 wide, uninterrupted bands of orange-brown around body whorl, one along shoulder, one anterior of mid-body, and one around siphonal canal; spire whorls solid orange-brown with thin white band along suture; interior of aperture white; 3-whorled protoconch dark brown; interior of aperture white."[2]

Distribution

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Locus typicus: "(Dredged from) 150 metres depth
50 kilometres South of Apalachicola, Florida, USA."[3]

References

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  1. ^ Cancellaria richardpetiti Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 17. Publ: CERF
  3. ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 17. Publ: CERF