Buchema interstrigata

Buchema interstrigata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Buchema interstrigata
Shell of Buchema interstrigata (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Buchema
Species:
B. interstrigata
Binomial name
Buchema interstrigata
(E. A. Smith, 1882)
Synonyms[1]
  • Crassispira caribbaea (E.A. Smith, 1882)
  • Drillia (Neodrillia) euphanes Melvill 1923
  • Pleurotoma (Crassispira) caribbaea Smith, E.A., 1882
  • Pleurotoma (Clavus) interstrigata E. A. Smith, 1882

Description

The length of the acuminate pyramidal shell varies between 7 mm and 12 mm. The shell consists of 7½ whorls of which 1½ in the protoconch. Each of the longitudinal ribs may be said to be composed of four transverse nodules, and those on the body whorl are bifurcate from the middle downwards. The lirae on the body whorl below the four principal ones are only slightly interrupted in the interstices between the ribs. The aperture is whitish near the outer lip. The sinus is small. The siphonal canal is very short.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs from Panama to Eastern Brazil; also off the Virgin Islands; Saint Vincent, Martinique and Cuba.

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References
  1. Buchema interstrigata (Smith E. A., 1882). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. Smith, E.A. (1882) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, 10, 206–218
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
  • "Buchema interstrigata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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