Uvanilla buschii

Uvanilla buschii, common name Busch's star shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1][2]

Uvanilla buschii
Abapertural view of a shell of Uvanilla buschii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Uvanilla
Species:
U. buschii
Binomial name
Uvanilla buschii
(Philippi, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
  • Astraea buschii (Philippi, 1844)
  • Astraea (Uvanilla) buschii (Philippi, 1844)
  • Astralium buschii Philippi, 1844 (original description)

Description

The shell attains a size between 17 mm and 60 mm. The solid, imperforate shell has a conic shape. Its color pattern is olivaceous brown, maculated obscurely above with brown, green or white. The seven whorls are longitudinally costate below the sutures and above the periphery, with two spiral series of tubercles around the middle of the flattened upper surface, or sometimes finely irregularly plicate over the whole upper surface. The periphery is acutely carinated, bearing numerous short compressed triangular radiating spines. The flat base of the shell is densely radiateiy lamellose-striate, with a strong rib revolving midway between the periphery and the center The aperture is oblique, pearly white within, transversely ovate, deeply channelled at the periphery. The columellar region is white, strongly bicostate, deeply excavated at the position of the umbilicus. The parietal callus is not much extended.

The operculum is oblong with a submarginal nucleus. The outer surface is white, with a strong curved central rib, its terminations joined by a A-shaped ridge.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Mexico to Peru.

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Uvanilla buschii (Philippi, 1844). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581668 on 2012-09-01
  2. Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1-82, pls 104-245.
  3. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Astralium buschii)
  • To World Register of Marine Species
  • "Astraea (Uvanilla) buschii". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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