Eucyclotoma bicarinata

Eucyclotoma bicarinata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Eucyclotoma bicarinata
Shell of Eucyclotoma bicarinata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Eucyclotoma
Species:
E. bicarinata
Binomial name
Eucyclotoma bicarinata
(Pease, 1863)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clathurella bicarinata Pease, 1863
  • Daphnella bicarinata Pease, 1862

Description

The length of the shell is 10 mm (0.39 in), its diameter 5 mm (0.20 in).

The white, turreted shell is elongate. It contains six whorls, clathrated throughout by longitudinal and transverse elevated striae. The body whorl is ornamented with two and the spire with one keel. The keels are very prominent, crenulated on their edge. The whorls descend obliquely from the keels to the suture. The middle of the body whorl between the keels is plane and at the sutures slightly angulated. The outer lip is expanded and on its surface radiately ridged. The siphonal canal is twisted, and recurve. The sinus is a very narrow deep slit, terminating in a round hole.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Kingsmill Island, Polynesia; also off Kiribati; Réunion and the Philippines.

References
  1. Eucyclotoma bicarinata (Pease, 1863). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.)(2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp
  • Pease W.H. (1863 ["1862"]). Description of new species of marine shells from the Pacific Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1862): 240–243
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Gastropods.com: Eucyclotoma bicarinata
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