Shutonia variabilis

Shutonia variabilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Shutonia variabilis
Original image of a shell of Shutonia variabilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Shutonia
Species:
S. variabilis
Binomial name
Shutonia variabilis
(Schepman, 1913)
Synonyms[1]
  • Schepmania variabilis (M.M. Schepman, 1913)
  • Surcula variabilis Schepman, 1913 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 18.5 mm, its diameter 6 mm.

(Original description) The elongately fusiform shell has a long siphonal canal. it is thin and yellowish-white. The shell contains eight whorls, of which about 2 (if normal) form a smooth, slightly inflated, reddish-brown protoconch. The subsequent whorls are subangular, concave in their upper part and separated by a conspicuous waved suture. The sculpture consists of a row of tubercles at the periphery, sharper in upper whorls, more obtuse lower on, a row of granules, just below the suture, becoming scarcely visible in last whorl and entirely or nearly wanting in some specimens. The lower part of the whorls show one or two rather faint, spiral lirae. The part of the last whorl below the keel shows more or less conspicuous spirals, which vary from regular flat lirae to more irregular riblike ones. In the latter case mainly two spirals are stronger. Moreover, there are extremely fine spiral striae and rather conspicuous growth-striae. The aperture is elongated and angular above. The peristome is thin, with a wide sinus above, then protracted. The columellar margin is nearly straight, only slightly concave above, ending in a rather long, narrow siphonal canal, covered with a thin layer of enamel. The interior of the aperture is smooth.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Indonesia and in the Andaman Sea and off Thailand.

References
  1. Shutonia variabilis (Schepman, 1913). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
  2. Schepman, 1913. The prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition. Part IV -V - VI: Toxoglossa This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Schepman, M. 1913. p. 425 [ Six specimens out of ten from Schepman 1913 were identified as Makiyamaia sibogae by Shuto 1970].
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Gastropods.com: Shutonia variabilis
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