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Aesopus eurytoides

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Species of gastropod

Aesopus eurytoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Columbellidae
Genus: Aesopus
Species: A. eurytoides
Binomial name
Aesopus eurytoides
(P. P. Carpenter, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Aesopus eurytoideus (misspelling)
  • Truncaria eurytoides P. P. Carpenter, 1864 superseded combination

Aesopus eurytoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.

Description

(Original description in Latin) The turreted shell is small and slender, and has a whitish coloration. Often, a band around the periphery is adorned with brownish-orange spots. The nuclear whorls are mammillate, effused, flattened, and slightly constricted towards the end. The ribs are shiny and wax-like. The aperture is evanescent and is sub-square, with a lip that is not thickened and sometimes finely striated inside, not denticulate. The columella is abruptly truncated.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Cape San Lucas, Mexico.

References

  1. ^ WoRMS. "Aesopus eurytoides(P. P. Carpenter, 1864)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
  2. ^ Carpenter, P. P. (1864). Diagnoses of new forms of mollusks collected at Cape St. Lucas by Mr. J. Xantus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. series 3, 14: 45-49 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Aesopus eurytoides


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