Amalda hilgendorfi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ancillariidae, the olives.[1]
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| Shell of Amalda hilgendorfi (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Ancillariidae |
| Genus: | Amalda |
| Species: | A. hilgendorfi
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| Amalda hilgendorfi (Martens, 1897)
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Description
editThis species attains a size of 50 mm, its diameter 18 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is fusiform-turreted, very faintly grooved in spirals. It is violet-white in color, with a pale orange callus covering the upper whorls and the sutural area of the penultimate and body whorls. Near the base, there is a more violet-colored band bordered above by a spiral groove, followed by a slightly swollen, pale orange callus.
The aperture is rather narrowly elliptical, approximately half the total length of the shell. It is white, with a blunt outer edge that is very slightly arched and thickened above. Near the base, it shows a small denticle, while the basal margin is broadly notched. The columellar margin is slightly sinuous and is sculpted outwardly with several obliquely aligned, somewhat indistinct folds. A thin white callus extends onto the final and penultimate whorls. [2]
Distribution
editDeep water: 400 metres. Broadly distributed in the West Pacific, recorded from Japan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, eastern Australia, the Coral Sea, and New Caledonia. [1]
References
edit- ^ a b Amalda hilgendorfi (Martens, 1897). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
- ^ Martens, E. von (1897). "Conchologische Miscellen II". Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 63 (1): 167. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- van Pel, P.L. (1989). "A new subspecies of the genus Amalda from the Arafura Sea (Gastropoda, Olividae)". La Conchiglia. 21 (238–241): 13–15.
- Wilson, B. (1994). Australian marine shells, prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, W.A.: Odyssey Publishing.
- Tsuchida E. (2017). Family Olivellidae. pp. 995–997, in: T. Okutani (ed.), Marine Mollusks in Japan, ed. 2. 2 vols. Tokai University Press. 1375 pp.
- Cossignani, T. (2015). "Amalda hilgendorfi vezzaroi nuova ssp". Malacologia Mostra Mondiale. 89: 24–25.
External links
edit- Kilburn R.N. & Bouchet P. (1988). "The genus Amalda in New Caledonia (Olividae, Ancillinae)" (PDF). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Ser. 4, section A (Zoologie). 10: 285.
- Kantor Y.I., Castelin M., Fedosov A. & Bouchet P. (2020). "The Indo-Pacific Amalda (Neogastropoda, Olivoidea, Ancillariidae) revisited with molecular data, with special emphasis on New Caledonia". European Journal of Taxonomy (706): 1–59. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.706.
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