Biology:Typhlomangelia nivalis

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Short description: Species of gastropod


Typhlomangelia nivalis
Typhlomangelia nivalis (MNHN-IM-2000-3139).jpeg
Shell of Typhlomangelia nivalis (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Typhlomangelia
Species:
T. nivalis
Binomial name
Typhlomangelia nivalis
(Lovén, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pleurotoma compospira Dautzenberg, Ph. & P. Fischer, 1896
  • Pleurotoma neotericum Locard, E.A.A., 1897
  • Pleurotoma nexuosulum Locard, E.A.A., 1897
  • Pleurotoma nivalis Loven, 1846 (basionym)
  • Pleurotoma peregrinum Locard, E.A.A., 1897
  • Pleurotoma vacantivum Locard, E.A.A., 1897
  • Typhlomangelia nivale (Loven, 1846) (ending of species epithet must agree with current genus)

Typhlomangelia nivalis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 12 mm and 27 mm. The turreted, white shell has a long spire with ten whorls. The periphery is tuberculated longitudinally. The ribs which give rise to them are very short. The shell is covered by close revolving striae. The shoulder of the whorls are slanting.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off the British Isles, Iceland, Norway , Spain , Portugal, the Azores, Senegal

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Typhlomangelia nivalis (Lovén, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 August 2011.
  2. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 223; 1884
  • Lovén S., 1846: Nordens Hafs-Mollusker [list of species bears subtitle "Index Molluscorum litora Scandinaviae occidentalia habitantium"] Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 3(5): 134–160, 3(6): 182–204
  • Dautzenberg P. & Fischer H., 1896: Dragages effectués par l'Hirondelle et par la Princesse Alice 1888–1895. 1. Mollusques Gastropodes; Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 9: 395–498, pl. 15–22
  • Locard A., 1897–1898: Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882 et 1883. Mollusques testacés.; Paris, Masson vol. 1 [1897], p. 1–516 pl. 1–22 vol. 2 [1898], p. 517–1044 pl. 23–40
  • Bouchet, P. & Warén, A., 1980. Revision of the northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies: 1–119, sér. Suppl.8
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN:0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3175208 entry