Hindsiclava tippetti | |
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Shell of Hindsiclava tippetti (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Hindsiclava |
Species: | H. tippetti
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Binomial name | |
Hindsiclava tippetti Petuch, 1987
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Hindsiclava tippetti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. [1]
Original description: "Shell large for genus, elongate, with elevated spire; shell ornamented with numerous equal-sized axial and spiral cords that are arranged in cancellate pattern; intersection of axial and spiral cord producing large, rounded bead; early whorls with large beaded axial ribs; axial ribs are replaced with cancellate-beaded sculpture on later whorls; subsutural area with large, wide, raised band and channeled unsculptured area that corresponds to anal notch; anal notch wide, deep; aperture narrow; shell color dark brown with tan beads; early whorls and protoconch dark brown; interior of aperture brown."
[2]
The length of the shell varies between 27 mm and 75 mm.
Locus typicus: "35 m. depth, Rosalind Bank, Honduras."
[3]
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Honduras.
Hindsiclava tippetti | |
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Shell of Hindsiclava tippetti (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Hindsiclava |
Species: | H. tippetti
|
Binomial name | |
Hindsiclava tippetti Petuch, 1987
|
Hindsiclava tippetti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. [1]
Original description: "Shell large for genus, elongate, with elevated spire; shell ornamented with numerous equal-sized axial and spiral cords that are arranged in cancellate pattern; intersection of axial and spiral cord producing large, rounded bead; early whorls with large beaded axial ribs; axial ribs are replaced with cancellate-beaded sculpture on later whorls; subsutural area with large, wide, raised band and channeled unsculptured area that corresponds to anal notch; anal notch wide, deep; aperture narrow; shell color dark brown with tan beads; early whorls and protoconch dark brown; interior of aperture brown."
[2]
The length of the shell varies between 27 mm and 75 mm.
Locus typicus: "35 m. depth, Rosalind Bank, Honduras."
[3]
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Honduras.