Bellaspira pentagonalis

Bellaspira pentagonalis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1][2]

Bellaspira pentagonalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Bellaspira
Species:
B. pentagonalis
Binomial name
Bellaspira pentagonalis
(Dall, 1889)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bellaspira pentapleura Schwengel, J.S., 1940
  • Clathrodrillia pentagonalis Dall, 1889
  • Drillia pagodula var.pentagonalis Dall, 1889
  • Drillia pentagonalis Dall, 1889 (original combination)
  • Fenimorea pagodula pentagonalis (Dall, 1889)
  • Fenimorea pentapleura J.S. Schwengel, 1940

Description

The shell grows to a length of 10 mm.

The stout shell has a white tip. The whorls are whitish and the summits of the five ribs are brownish. The ribs are continuous from base to summit and the cross-section of the shell forms an exact pentagon with rounded angles. The ribs are not continuous, except accidentally. The other characters are closely similar to Fenimorea pagodula (Dall, 1889)[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs from North Carolina (Cape Hatteras) to Florida, and in the Gulf of Mexico off Western Florida and in the Caribbean Sea off Aruba and French Guiana.

References
  1. Bellaspira pentagonalis (Dall, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 September 2011.
  2. P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  3. Dall W. H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40
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