Cantharidus fournieri
Cantharidus fournieri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]
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| Drawing of a shell of Cantharidus fournieri | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Cantharidus |
| Species: | C. fournieri |
| Binomial name | |
| Cantharidus fournieri (Crosse, 1863) [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Trochus fournieri Crosse, 1863 | |
Description
The shell grows to a length of 9 mm, its diameter 6 mm. The small, imperforate shell has an acutely elongate-conical shape. It is brown or olivaceous, unicolored or punctate or maculate with white. The spire is straightly conical. The apex is acute. The sutures are linear. The about 8 whorls are flat, very finely, evenly, densely spirally striate, the stride sometimes subdecussated by delicate oblique growth-lines. The body whorl is carinate at the periphery. The base of the shell is coarsely lirate, lirae about 9 in number. The aperture is small, quadrangular, and smooth within. The lip is acute, bordered inside by a wide porcellanous band. The throat is nacreous, brilliant green. The columella is straight and scarcely truncate at its base.[3]
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Indo-Pacific and off New Caledonia.
References
- Crosse, Journ. de Conchyl., 1863, p. 180.
- Marshall, B. (2013). Cantharidus fournieri (Crosse, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=720354 on 2014-01-17
- Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
External links
- To World Register of Marine Species
- "Cantharidus fournieri". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.