Vaceuchelus foveolatus

Vaceuchelus foveolatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chilodontidae.[2][3]

Vaceuchelus foveolatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Chilodontaidae
Genus: Vaceuchelus
Species:
V. foveolatus
Binomial name
Vaceuchelus foveolatus
(A. Adams, 1853) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Euchelus (Herpetopoma) foveolatus (A. Adams, 1851)
  • Euchelus angulatus Pearse, 1867
  • Herpetopoma foveolatum (A. Adams, 1853)
  • Monodonta (Aradasia) foveolata A. Adams, 1853 · unaccepted (basionym)
  • Monodonta foveolata A. Adams, 1853
  • Vaceuchelus angulatus (Pease, 1868) junior subjective synonym

Description

The height of the shell reaches 8 mm. The small, solid, white, very minutely perforated shell has a globose-conic shape. The spire is short. The four whorls are convex and encircled by strong spiral ribs. The interstices between them are deeply, coarsely pitted by the prominence of strong, regular, longitudinal lamellae, continuous over the spirals. The penultimate and next earlier whorls have 3 spirals (the subsutural one sometimes subobsolete). The outer lip is inserted upon the fourth. On the body whorl near the aperture there are 7, but sometimes more, by reason of the interpolation of one or two interstitial riblets on the upper surface. Two or three submedian ribs are generally more prominent. The sutures are canaliculate. The aperture is rounded. The columella is slightly concave, rather wide and flat, but not toothed at base. The umbilical perforation is minute.[4]

This is a very distinct little shell, with coarsely latticed sculpture.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Northern Queensland, Australia, in the Tuamotu Archipelago, Polynesia and the Philippines.

References
  1. A. Adams., P. Z. S. 1851, p. 176.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2012). Vaceuchelus foveolatus (A. Adams, 1853). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547236 on 2013-04-14
  3. Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands. Visaya Supplement 2: 1-228.
  4. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  • Marshall B. A. (1979). The Trochidae and Turbinidae of the Kermadec Ridge (Mollusca: Gastropoda). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 6: 521-552 page(s): 524
  • Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
  • Vilvens, C. (2017). New species and new records of Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) from the Pacific Ocean. Novapex, Hors Série. 11: 1-67
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