Clanculus atypicus

Clanculus atypicus
Original drawing of a shell of Clanculus atypicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Clanculus
Species: C. atypicus
Binomial name
Clanculus atypicus
Iredale, 1912
Synonyms[1]
  • Clanculus (Clanculopsis) atypicus Iredale, 1912

Clanculus atypicus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Description

(Original description by Tom Iredale) The small, solid, umbilicate shell has a depressedly globose shape with six whorls. Its periphery is rounded,and its base flattened. The colour of the shell is dark greyish-brown, painted obliquely with yellow or fawn. Its sculpture consists of fine spiral threads of varying strengths, about eighteen major ones on the body whorl. The preceding whorl shows six major threads only. The axial sculpture is represented by very fine close lines. The suture is deep, channelled, bounded by a row of nodules. The oblique aperture is subquadrate. The outer lip is slightly crenulate and recurved. The deep umbilicus is surrounded by a noduled callused rim, the callus extending to meet the outer lip. The columella is obliquely inserted in the umbilicus, with a small nodule at each end. The operculum is circular, horny, thin, multispiral, with a central nucleus. [2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand, occurring off the Kermadec Islands.

References

  1. 1 2 Rosenberg, G. (2012). Clanculus atypicus Iredale, 1912. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=592809 on 2012-11-23
  2. ↑ Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 10 (1912-1913)
External identifiers for Clanculus atypicus
WoRMS 592809
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