Mioawateria watsoni

Mioawateria watsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Mioawateria watsoni
Original image of a shell of Mioawateria watsoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Mioawateria
Species:
M. watsoni
Binomial name
Mioawateria watsoni
(Dautzenberg, 1889)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clathurella watsoni Dautzenberg, 1889
  • Gymnobela watsoni (Dautzenberg, 1889)
  • Magnella watsoni (Dautzenberg, 1889)

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm.

The rather strong shell has a turreted shape and is composed of 8 convex whorls. The two first whorls are punctuated, the two subsequent whorls are covered with fine and regular cross-linking. The last whorls are strongly reticulated by high, longitudinal ribs, arched, twenty in number on the body whorl, and regular cords, fairly prominent, more spaced at the top of the whorls where they from, on the crest of the coasts, a series of tubercles. The aperture is oblong, occupying just over half of the total height of the shell. It is angular at the top and ends at the base in a short, open siphonal canal. The columella is faintly arched. The outer lip is subangular on its upper part and then arcuate. The interior of the outer lip is denticulate. The color of the shell is white with the top of the spire tinted orange-yellow. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mauritania and the Azores.

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2014). Mioawateria watsoni (Dautzenberg, 1889). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722480 on 2015-01-31
  2. Dautzenberg, Ph. (1889). Contribution à la faune malacologique des Iles Açores. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques Accomplies sur son Yacht par Albert Ier Prince Souverain de Monaco, I. Imprimerie de Monaco: Monaco. 112, IV plates pp
  • Morassi M. & Bonfitto A. (2013) Three new bathyal raphitomine gastropods (Mollusca: Conoidea) from the Indo-Pacific region. Zootaxa 3620(4): 579–588
  • Bouchet & Warren, Revision of the North-East Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda); The Journal of Molluscan Studies, supplement 8, December 1980
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
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