Pygmaepterys richardbinghami

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

Pygmaepterys richardbinghami
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricopsinae
Genus:
Pygmaepterys
Species:
P. richardbinghami
Binomial name
Pygmaepterys richardbinghami
(Petuch, 1987)
Synonyms[1]
  • Favartia (Pygmaepterys) richardbinghami (Petuch, 1987)
  • Favartia richardbinghami (Petuch, 1987)
  • Muricopsis richardbinghami Petuch, 1987

Description

Original description: "Shell fusiform, elongated with elevated spire; shell with 8 varices per whorl; body whorl ornamented with 5 large, evenly-spaced, raised cords; siphonal canal with 4 cords; spire whorls with 3 spiral cords; shoulder tabulate, sharp-angled; varices thin, winglike, with 5 large bladelike serrations; serrations correspond to cords in intervarical regions; posteriormost serration largest, spinelike, pointed posteriorly; aperture small, oval; outer lip thickened, with 5 large denticles along inner edge; shell color tan, with 2 thin reddish-brown bands, 1 around subsutural region and 1 around break between body whorl and siphonal canal; spire whorls with reddish-brown sub-sutural band; interior of aperture pale tan."[2]

The shell size is 17 mm.

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Off Palm Beach Island, Palm Beach, Florida, USA."[3]

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico off Eastern Florida

References
  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Pygmaepterys richardbinghami (Petuch, 1987). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419953 on 2020-11-21
  2. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 26. Publ: CERF
  3. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 26. Publ: CERF
  • Petuch E.J. (1987). New Caribbean molluscan faunas. Charlottesville, Virginia: The Coastal Education and Research Foundation. 154 pp., 29 pls; addendum 2 pp., 1 pl.
  • Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas


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