Xenophora peroniana

Xenophora peroniana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Xenophoroidea
Family:	Xenophoridae
Genus:	Xenophora
Subgenus:	Xenophora
Species:	X. peroniana
Binomial name
	Xenophora peroniana; (Iredale, 1929)

Xenophora peroniana is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.[1]

Description

One reported specimen from New South Wales had 41.1 mm of height and 54.1 mm of diameter.[2]

The shell is moderately elevated. The umbilicus is closed in adults, but narrowly open in juveniles. A row of foreign objects is very prominent, obscuring more than half of the dorsal surface. The base is slightly concave to almost flat, sculptured with fine, irregular, subspiral striae which run at almost right angles. The aperture lower lip is somewhat thickened in mature specimens, often with a distinct internal thickening in middle of lip and usually with a weakly sinuate edge. Color-wise, it is yellowish-white dorsally, with base yellowish-white and collabral lines of chocolate brown. The callus is white. The columella is white but with a brown blotch around umbilical region in many specimens.[2]

Distribution

X. peroniana is found off the east coast of Australia.[3]

References

Xenophora peroniana (Iredale, 1929) . 4 November 2018. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
Winston F., Ponder (31 December 1983). "A revision of the Recent Xenophoridae of the world and of the Australian fossil species (Mollusca, Gastropoda)" (PDF). Australian Museum Memoir: 30. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
Trego, Kent D. (1998). "Note on a Xenophorid (Gastropoda: Xenophoridae) Record from the Nasca Ridge, Southeast Pacific" (PDF). Pacific Science: 51. Retrieved 4 November 2018.

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[WoRMS-1] Xenophora peroniana (Iredale, 1929) . 4 November 2018. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.

[Ponder-2] Winston F., Ponder (31 December 1983). "A revision of the Recent Xenophoridae of the world and of the Australian fossil species (Mollusca, Gastropoda)" (PDF). Australian Museum Memoir: 30. Retrieved 4 November 2018.

[3] Trego, Kent D. (1998). "Note on a Xenophorid (Gastropoda: Xenophoridae) Record from the Nasca Ridge, Southeast Pacific" (PDF). Pacific Science: 51. Retrieved 4 November 2018.