Aesopus stearnsii, common name Stearn's dove shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[1]

Aesopus stearnsii
Shell of Aesopus stearnsii (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Columbellidae
Genus: Aesopus
Species:
A. stearnsii
Binomial name
Aesopus stearnsii
(Tryon, 1883)
Synonyms
  • Columbella (Seminella) stearnsii Tryon, 1883 (basionym)
  • Columbella stearnsii Tryon, 1883 (original combination)
  • Nitidella filosa Stearns, 1873

Description

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(Original description) The elongate shell features five slightly convex whorls and a yellowish-brown latticed surface adorned with many fine, revolving spiral threads and microscopic axial ribs. The outer lip is simple and with spiral ridges on the inside.[2]

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to western Florida, USA; also off Bermuda and the Bahamas, Brazil; in the Caribean Sea off Guadeloupe.

References

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  • Stearns, R. E. C. (1873). Descriptions of new marine shells from the west coast of Florida. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 25: 344-347.
  • Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp., 547 pp
  • Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
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