Biology:Anarithma dorcas

Short description: Species of gastropod

Anarithma dorcas
Apertural view of a shell of Anarithma dorcas (specimen in MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mitromorphidae
Genus:	Anarithma
Species:	A. dorcas
Binomial name
Anarithma dorcas Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971
Synonyms
Mitrella celinae Kosuge, 1980 Mitromorpha dorcas (Kuroda, T. & K. Oyama in Kuroda, T., T. Habe & K. Oyama, 1971)

Anarithma dorcas is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 15 mm and 28 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Japan.

Reproduction

Mitromorpha dorcas is a type of sea snail that does not release its eggs and sperm into the water like many other marine animals. It is a non-broadcast spawner. Its life cycle also doesn't include the trochophore stage, which is the free-swimming early stage common among the marine creatures.

References

• Kuroda, T.; Habe, T.; Oyama, K. (1971). The Sea Shells of Sagami Bay. Maruzen Co., Tokyo. xix, 1–741 (Japanese text), 1–489 (English text), 1–51 (Index), pls 1–121
• Kosuge S. (1980) Description of new species of the genus Mitrella (Pyrenidae, Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 1(3): 46, pl. 9
• Boyer, F. (2022). "About the mitromorphid species group Anarithma lachryma (Reeve, 1845) (Conoidea Mitromorpha) at reef levels of Balicasag Island (Central Philippines).". Biodiversity Journal. 13 (1): 92. 
•  , Wikidata Q58677344

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Zootaxa 682: 1–1295. https://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf. 
• "Mitromorpha (Mitromorpha) dorcas" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/5/Shell_9385.shtml. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5224206 entry