Cantharidus marmoreus

Cantharidus marmoreus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2][3]

Cantharidus marmoreus
Drawing of a shell of Cantharidus marmoreus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Cantharidus
Species:
C. marmoreus
Binomial name
Cantharidus marmoreus
(Pease, 1868) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Calliostoma mamoreum (Pease, 1868)
  • Trochus marmoreus Pease, 1868 (original description)

Description

The height of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 5 mm. The rather solid shell has an elongate-conical shape. It is imperforate, but with a groove and pit or even a slight perforation at the place of the umbilicus. It is whitish, longitudinally clouded with brown or pink, often showing white opaque scattered dots. The surface is polished. The sculpture consists of numerous broad flat smooth spirals, separated by impressed lines. There are seven of these flat spiral ribs on the upper surface of the body whorl, the peripheral one larger. The base of the shell has numerous concentric striae, and about 4 spaced, more impressed grooves. The spire is high with its lateral outlines nearly straight . There are about 8 whorls, each one a trifle convex, the last angular at the periphery. The base of the shell is a little convex. The aperture is quadrate. The columella is vertical and obliquely truncate at its base.[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Tuamotu Islands.

References
  1. Pease., Amer. Journ. Conch, iii, p. 287, t. 24, f 9
  2. Bouchet, P. (2012). Cantharidus marmoreus (Pease, 1868). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596456 on 2012-11-23
  3. Vilvens C. (2012) New species and new records of Seguenzioidea and Trochoidea (Gastropoda) from French Polynesia. Novapex 13(1): 1-23. (10 March 2012)
  4. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Calliostoma mamoreum)
  • Cernohorsky, W.O., 1980. Taxonomic notes on Polynesian Mollusca with descriptions of new species of Nassariidae. Rec. Auck. Inst. Mus., 17:113-125.
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