Priotrochus goudoti

Priotrochus goudoti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

Priotrochus goudoti
Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Priotrochus goudoti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Priotrochus
Species:
P. goudoti
Binomial name
Priotrochus goudoti
(Fischer, 1878) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Monilea (Priotrochus) chrysolamea (Martens, 1880)
  • Monilea (Priotrochus) goudoti (Fischer, 1878)
  • Monilea chrysolamea (Martens, 1880)
  • Monilea goudoti (P. Fischer, 1878)
  • Priotrochus chrysolaemus (Martens, 1880)
  • Trochus (Priotrochus) goudoti (Fischer, 1878)
  • Trochus chrysolaemus Martens, 1880
  • Trochus goudoti (Fischer, 1878)

Description

The height of the shell attains 9 mm, its diameter 6 mm. The small, imperforate, thick shell has a conoid-elongated shape. It is whitish-ashen, punctate with rose-color, maculate with spadiceous. The 6 to 7 whorls 6 are convex. They are spirally cingulate, the penultimate whorls with 8 cinguli. The body whorl is elongated, rounded in the middle, appressed below the suture, convex beneath. The aperture is ovate-subquadrate. The lip is crenulated. The columella is arcuate and delicately crenulated.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, the Comores,and the Mascarene Basin.

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References
  1. Fischer, Journ. de Conchyl. 1878, p. 62
  2. WoRMS (2011). Priotrochus goudoti (Fischer, 1878). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567726 on 2012-06-22
  3. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Monilea (Priotrochus) goudoti)
  • Herbert D.G. (1988). Studies on Priotrochus obscurus and the systematics position of Priotrochus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of zoology 214:561–268
  • Herbert D.G. (1994). Trochus kotschyi, the first Indian Ocean record of the genus Osilinus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Zoology 233:345–357.
  • Herbert D.G. (1994). Notes on synonymy within the genus Priotrochus Fischer, 1879 (Prosobranchia: Trochidae). Annals of the Natal Museum 35:139–151
  • "Priotrochus goudoti". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
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