Mikadotrochus beyrichii

Mikadotrochus beyrichii, common name Beyrich's slit shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurotomariidae.[2]

Mikadotrochus beyrichii
Drawing with an apertural view of Mikadotrochus beyrichii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:
Pleurotomarioidea
Family:
Pleurotomariidae
Genus:
Mikadotrochus
Species:
M. beyrichii
Binomial name
Mikadotrochus beyrichii
(Hilgendorf, 1877) [1]
Synonyms

It was discovered by Dr. Hilgendorf in an ancient Japanese collection.

Description

The size of the shell varies between 50 mm and 100 mm. The shell has a trochiform shape. It is as high as broad. It has a flat base. It shows moderately numerous spiral lines. It is pale yellow, beautifully flamed with 11 red whorls that are regularly increasing. The penultimate whorl has 8 lirae above, 2 in and 2 under the slit fasciole. These lirae are beset with weak nodules, about 3 times as long (in the direction of the spiral) as high or broad. The body whorl has a blunt angle at its base. This base contains 20 concentric lirae, and in the middle a deep pit or "false umbilicus". On the outside it is white, on the inside it is pearly. The thick, pearly columellar margin is S-shaped.[3]

Distribution

M. beyrichii is endemic to the coastal waters of Japan.[4] and China

Mikadotrochus beyrichii (Hilgendorf, 1877). Museum specimen, Naturalis Leiden.

References
  1. Hilgendorf in Sitzungsb. d. Gesellsch. Naturf. Freunde Berlin, 1877, p. 72.
  2. Mikadotrochus beyrichii (Hilgendorf, 1877). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 March 2013.
  3. G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII, p. 71 (described as Pleurotomaria beyrichii)
  4. Oliver, A.P.H. (2004). Guide to Seashells of the World. Buffalo: Firefly Books. 17.
  • Dautzenberg, Ph.; Fischer, H. (1898). Note sur le Pleurotomaria beyrichi. J. conchyliol. XLVI: 218–224, plate XI
  • Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506
  • "Mikadotrochus beyrichii". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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