Agathotoma alcippe

Agathotoma alcippe is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Agathotoma alcippe
Original image of a shell of Agathotoma alcippe
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Agathotoma
Species:
A. alcippe
Binomial name
Agathotoma alcippe
(Dall W.H., 1918)
Synonyms[1]
  • Agathotoma euryclea Dall, W.H., 1919
  • Agathotoma pyrrhula Dall, W.H., 1919
  • Cytharella (Agathotoma) euryclea Dall, W.H., 1919
  • Mangilia parilis Smith, E.A., 1888
  • Pleurotoma alcippe Dall, 1918

Description

The length of the shell varies between 5 mm and 11 mm.

The minute, whitish or pale brownish shell is subcylindrical and turreted. The protoconch has a projecting minute subglobular apex and contains about 1½ smooth whorls followed in the teleoconch by about 4½ sculptured whorls. The spiral sculpture consists of minute close-set threads covering uniformly the whole surface. The suture is distinct, appressed, the whorls shouldered immediately in front of it. The axial sculpture consists of (on the body whorl seven or eight) prominent, slightly protractively oblique ribs, with wider interspaces, extending over the whole whorl and prominent at the shoulder, but not continuous over the spire. The aperture is narrow. The outer lip is varicose, thick, striated in front, smooth within. The anal sulcus is conspicuous but not deep. The inner lip is smooth The siphonal canal is hardly differentiated.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico, and off the Galápagos Islands.

References
  1. Agathotoma alcippe (Dall, 1918). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 August 2011.
  2. Dall (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 56 (1920) (described as Cytharella (Agathotoma) euryclea)
  • Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
  • "Agathotoma quadriseriata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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