Antiplanes sanctiioannis
Antiplanes sanctiioannis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids.[1]
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
Clade: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Antiplanes |
Species: | A. sanctiioannis |
Binomial name | |
Antiplanes sanctiioannis (Smith E. A., 1875) | |
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Description
The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 40 mm; maximum diameter 14 mm.
The fusiform shell contains 10 slightly convex whorls. The shell is clothed with a smooth, thickish, olive epidermis. The shell is covered with very narrow spiral striae and incremental flexuous stripes. The dark reddish aperture is ovate and contracted below. It measures about 2/5 of the total length. The siphonal canal is broad and slightly oblique. The narrow outer lip has a wide sinuation above the middle. The columella is twisted. The operculum is unguiform.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off he Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan; also in the Bering Sea.
References
- Antiplanes sanctiioannis (Smith E. A., 1875). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
- E.A. Smith, A list of the Gasteropoda collected in Japanese seas by Commander H. C. St. John, R.; The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology ser.4 v.15 no. 85-90, 1875
- Aurivillius, Carl Wilhelm Samuel. Öfversigt öfver de af Vega-Expeditionen insamlade Arktiska hafsmollusker: Placophora och Gastropoda. Vega-Expeditionens vetenskapliga iakttagelser, 1885.
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225–383.
External links
- Specimen at MNHN, Paris
- "Antiplanes sanctiioannis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.