Gracilancilla lindae

Gracilancilla lindae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ancillariidae.[2]

Gracilancilla lindae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Olivoidea
Family:
Ancillariidae
Genus:
Gracilancilla
Species:
G. lindae
Binomial name
Gracilancilla lindae
Petuch, 1987[1]

Description

Original description: "Shell very thin and fragile, very elongated with extremely protracted spire; shell without shoulder, fusiform; aperture elongated, narrow; anterior one-fourth of shell with separate enameled area; protoconch extremely large in proportion to shell size, rounded, dome-like; color pale cream-white, highly polished; columella with 2 plications; interior of aperture pale cream-white."[3]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Off Punto Fijo, Paraguana Peninsula,
Gulf of Venezuela, Venezuela."[4]

References
  1. Petuch, E.J. (1987) New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas. The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 154 pp.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  2. Gracilancilla lindae Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
  3. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 104. Publ: CERF
  4. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 104. Publ: CERF


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