| Perrona perron | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Perrona perron | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clavatulidae |
| Genus: | Perrona |
| Species: | P. perron |
| Binomial name | |
| Perrona perron (Gmelin, 1791) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Perrona perron is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]
Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz (1730–1800) adopted a Dutch name " the perron," for this species, and Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814–1865) erroneously supposing it to be in honor of a naturalist, changed its form from Clavatula perron to Clavatula perronii.
Description
The shell grows to a length of 25 mm. The pale yellow, fusiform shell is turreted and rather smooth. The whorls are flat, with flexuous longitudinal lines, slightly angulated round the upper part. The lower portion of the last whorl is contracted and has several regular, distant revolving ridges. The anal sinus is nearly central.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Gabon to North Angola.
References
- 1 2 Perrona perron (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 August 2011.
- ↑ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 232 (described as Clavatula perron)
- Chemnitz, Syst. Conch. Cab., 10: 278, pl. 164, figs. 1573-74
External links
- "Perrona perron". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- Walter O. "TYPE SPECIMENS OF MOLLUSCA IN THE UNIVERSITY ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM, COPENHAGEN." Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 11 (1974): 143–92.