Fuegotrophon pallidus (Broderip 1832)
- Dataset
- Gastropods from the Burdwood Bank (southwestern Atlantic): an overview of species diversity
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Neogastropoda
- family
- Muricidae
- genus
- Fuegotrophon
- species
- Fuegotrophon pallidus
description
Description. Shell height to 22 mm (up to 27.1 mm according to Strebel 1908); fusiform, solid. Protoconch large, smooth of 1.75 markedly convex whorls (not visible in the figure). Teleoconch of up to 3.25 whorls, markedly convex in outline; last whorl comprising about 75 % of total shell height. Suture deep, impressed. Surface white; sculptured with 3 to 5 spiral cords, and 10 to 11 low primary axial ribs, undulated at their intersections; interspaces with secondary axial ribs; base with 5 to 6 additional cords. Aperture ovate, interior white; outer lip expanded, thick; columellar callus thick; siphonal canal long, somewhat oblique, moderately narrow. Operculum ovate, with subterminal nucleus; pale brownish.
description
Fig. 4 E
description
Fuegotrophon pallidus — Pastorino, 2002: 131
materials_examined
Examined material. 2 an. and 10 sh. (MACN-In 40690).