Mangelia sculpturata

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

Mangelia sculpturata
Shell of Mangelia sculpturata (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. sculpturata
Binomial name
Mangelia sculpturata
(Dall, 1887)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bela sculpturata Dall, 1887 (original combination)
  • Mangilia sculpturata (Dall, 1887)
  • Oenopota sculpturata (Dall, 1887)

This is not the South African species Mangilia sculpturata Turton, W.H., 1932 [2][3]

Description

The length of the shell attains 12.3 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm.

(Original description) The shell is turreted and contains 7 whorls. It is white, with a strong waxen yellow epidermis. It is thin, with a strong sculpture. The transverse sculpture consists of, on the body whorl, ten strong squarish ribs and numerous fine and occasionally impressed lines of growth. The longitudinal sculpture consists of a distinct angulation of the whorl, in front of the anal fasciole, which on the transverse ribs develops into stout swellings, which in the earlier whorls are connected by an obscure rib. The whole surface of the whorl is covered with rather wide and shallow grooves and their even wider interspaces. The grooves are closest and finest on the siphonal canal and behind the angulation, and faintest or nearly absent on the periphery. The anal notch is very shallow. The fasciole is nearly obsolete. The operculum is short, triangular and yellowish brown.[4]

Distribution

This marine species occurs from the Aleutian Islands to Western Canada.

References
  1. Mangelia sculpturata (Dall, 1887). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 August 2011.
  2. "Mangilia sculpturata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  3. Turton, William Harry. The marine shells of Port Alfred, S. Africa. H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932
  4. Dall, W.H. (1887 [1886]) Supplementary notes on some species of mollusks of the Bering Sea and vicinity. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 9 (571) : 297–309
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