Borsonella merriami is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
| Borsonella merriami | |
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| Original drawing of a shell of Borsonella merriami | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Borsonella |
| Species: | B. merriami
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| Binomial name | |
| Borsonella merriami (Arnold, 1903)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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† Drillia merriami Arnold, 1903 (original combination) | |
Description
edit(Original description) The small, fusiform shell is rather thin. The apex is blunt. The seven whorls are somewhat angular, with about fourteen slightly oblique, prominent, rather sharp transverse ridges. These ridges are most prominent on the angle of the whorl, and become obsolete near the anterior margin and at about one-third width of the whorl from the posterior margin. A narrow sutural band occupies the upper one third of the whorl. Incremental lines are visible. The suture is deeply impressed and distinct. The body whorl is somewhat ventricose and narrowed anteriorly, with transverse ribs sometimes obsolete. The aperture is broadly elliptical, narrowed anteriorly to a prominent sinus. The posterior sinus is small, near the suture. The thin outer lip is arcuate. The columella is smooth.
Dimensions: Length. 14.2 mm.; width: 5.2 mm.; body whorl 7.6 mm.; aperture, including siphonal canal, 6 mm.; siphonal canal 1.5 mm.[2]
Distribution
editThis fossil species is rare in Pliocene and lower San Pedro series of Deadman Island. The specimen figured is the type, which is from the lower San Pedro series at Deadman Island (California).
References
edit- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2015). Borsonella merriami (Arnold, 1903). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=849189 on 2016-02-26
- ^ Arnold (1903), The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of San Pedro; Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, 1903, 3; p. 207 (described as Drillia merriami)
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
- McLean J.H. (1996). The Prosobranchia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 1–160