Aclophoropsis festiva is a species of minute sea snails in the family Triphoridae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Family: | Triphoridae |
| Genus: | Aclophoropsis |
| Species: | A. festiva
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| Aclophoropsis festiva (A. Adams, 1851)
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Description
editThis a small prettily marked species with two rows of granules on each whorl and with the interstices deeply punctured. [2]
They have left-handed shell-coiling, (adult size from 6 – 12 mm) with very high spires.
Distribution
editThis species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.
References
edit- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Aclophoropsis festiva (A. Adams, 1854)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ Adams, A. (1854). Descriptions of new species of Eulima, Triphoris, etc. from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1851) 19: 276-279
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- Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471
- Verco, J.C. 1909. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 277-292 [
- Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1931. South Australian shells. South Australian Naturalist 12(4): 51-63
- Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
External links
edit- Albano, P. G.; Bakker, P. A. J.; Sabelli, B. (2019). Annotated catalogue of the types of Triphoridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Natural History Museum of the United Kingdom, London. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 95(1): 161-308.
- Marshall, B. A. (1983). A revision of the Recent Triphoridae of southern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, supplement. 2: 1-119
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