Hormospira

Hormospira
	Shells of Hormospira maculosa (specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Centert)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Hormospira; (Sowerby I, 1834)
Species:	H. maculosa
Binomial name
	Hormospira maculosa; (G.B. Sowerby I, 1834)
Synonyms
	Pleurotoma (Surcula) maculosa Sowerby I, 1834; Surcula maculosa Sowerby I, 1834;

Hormospira is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae, containing the single species Hormospira maculosa.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 50 mm its diameter 13 mm.

The shell is smooth, or with light revolving striae. The shoulder of the whorls are angulated and defined by a row of tubercles. The shell is flesh-colored, light brown, or light purplish, with chestnut maculations.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Sonora, Mexico.

References

^ ^a ^b Philippe Bouchet (2011). "Hormospira Berry, 1958". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

External links

Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273–308
Abbott R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls.
Kantor Yu.I. (1988) On the anatomy of Pseudomelatominae (Gastropoda, Toxoglossa, Turridae) with notes on functional morphology and phylogeny of the subfamily. Apex 3(1): 1–19

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[WoRMS-1] Philippe Bouchet (2011). "Hormospira Berry, 1958". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 20 January 2012.

[2] G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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