Otitoma kwandangensis
Original image of a shell of Otitoma kwandangensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Otitoma
Species:
O. kwandangensis
Binomial name
Otitoma kwandangensis
(Schepman, 1913)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia kwandangensis Schepman, 1913 (original combination)
  • Notocytharella kwangdangensis (M.M. Schepman, 1913)
  • Thelecytharella kwandangensis (Schepman, 1913)

Otitoma kwandangensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell is 8½ mm, and its diameter 3 mm.

(Original description) The strong shell has an elongated fusiform shape. It has a rather dark, uniform reddish-brown color. It contains 8 whorls, of which 3 form a smooth, red-brown protoconch. The whorls of the teleoconch are slightly convex, strongly lirate below the suture, with at first 2, lower on 3 strong spiral lirae on each whorl, 14 in number on the body whorl and 2 faint ones below subsutural liration, more or less visible on upper whorls. The whorls are crossed by thick, rounded ribs, making the lirae slightly beaded, 9 in number on the penultimate whorl, faint on the last one, which has a very strong rib behind the peristome. Moreover, the shell is crossed by conspicuous growth lines. The aperture is oblong and angular above. The peristome is rather thin, with a conspicuous sinus above, then protracted towards the middle. The columellar margin is concave above, straight below, with a strong layer of enamel, and a tubercle above at the sinus. The interior of the aperture is smooth, red-brown with a bluish tint in its depth. The siphonal canal is straight and rather narrow.[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Indonesia.

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2017). Otitoma kwandangensis (Schepman, 1913). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565532 on 2017-10-23
  2. ↑ Schepman, 1913. The prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition. Part IV -V - VI: Toxoglossa Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. (described as Drillia kwandangensis)
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