Amaea ferminiana is a species of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae. [1]
| Amaea ferminiana | |
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| Shell of Amaea ferminiana (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Epitoniidae |
| Genus: | Amaea |
| Species: | A. ferminiana
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| Binomial name | |
| Amaea ferminiana (Dall, 1908)
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Description
editThe shell grows to a length of 38 mm, its maximum diameter is 17 mm.
(Original description) The shell is large, solid, and acute, with eleven or more closely adherent whorls. It exhibits a livid flesh color that fades to white, with the terminal varix being distinctly white. The surface is dull and unpolished. The axial sculpture consists of numerous low, small, sharp lamellae, which are slightly more prominent before the suture on the last two whorls. These lamellae are reticulated by about six prominent, flattened spiral threads with wider interspaces, containing much finer spiral threads. The basal disk is similarly covered with closely set, very fine spiral threads, with the suture positioned along its posterior margin. The aperture is rounded and slightly patulous in line with the axis, and in fully mature shells, a thick, white varicose peritreme is bevelled away from the aperture towards the thicker portion of the varix behind. [2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in Panama Bay; also off Mexico and Colombia.
References
edit- ^ Amaea ferminiana (Dall, 1908). 1 October 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Dall, W.H. (1908). "Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891, Lieut.-Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. XXXVII. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", from October, 1904 to March, 1905, Lieut.-Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 43 (6): 315. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Ramírez, R.; Paredes, C.; Arenas, J. (2003). "Moluscos del Perú". Revista de Biologia Tropical. 51 (supplement 3): 225–284.
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External links
edit- Dall, W.H. (1919). "Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 56 (2295): 348. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.56-2295.293.
- Böse, E. (1910). "Stratigraphie, Beschreibung and Vergleich mit amerikanischen Tertiärfaunen. In Böse E. & Toula F. Zur jungtertiären Fauna von Tehuantepec". Jahrbuch der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt, Wien. 60 (2): 228–229.
