Oxystele fulgurata

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

Oxystele fulgurata
Drawing with three views of a shell of Oxystele fulgurata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Oxystele
Species:
O. fulgurata
Binomial name
Oxystele fulgurata
(Philippi, 1848) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Monodonta fulgurata (Philippi, 1848)
  • Trochus fulguratus Philippi, 1848

Description

The height of the shell attains 19 mm, its diameter 18 mm. The imperforate, rather thin shell has a conoidal shape. Its apex is subacute . The 5½ whorls are moderately convex, nearly smooth, the upper ones eroded, spirally striate and yellow. The remainder are margined and compressed at the sutures. These are greenish, ornamented with narrow brownish, obliquely radiating, zigzag lines. The body whorl is rounded and is slightly descending. The subovate aperture is sulcate within. The arcuate columella is compressed. The umbilical tract is white and callous.[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Angola and Namibia.

References
  1. Philippi, Zeitschr.f. Mal., 1848, p. 106
  2. Oxystele fulgurata (Philippi, 1848). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 March 2011.
  3. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Monodonta fulgurata)
  • Donald K.M., Kennedy M. & Spencer H.G. (2005) The phylogeny and taxonomy of austral monodontine topshells (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae), inferred from DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37: 474–483.
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