Antistreptus magellanicus Dall 1902
- 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
- Buccinidae
- genus
- Antistreptus
- species
- Antistreptus magellanicus
description
Description. Shell height to 4.1 mm (up to 5 mm according to Castellanos 1967); sinistral, fusiform, solid. Protoconch narrow, tilted, of 1.5 elongated, smooth whorls. Teleoconch of up to 3.25 whorls, markedly convex in outline; last whorl comprising about 70 % of total shell height. Suture deep, impressed. Surface white; sculptured with 11 to 14 strong axial ribs and 2 or 3 spiral cords per whorl, which produce large beads at their intersections; base with 6 to 9 additional cords. Axial sculpture vanishing progressively towards the base. Aperture ovate, interior white; columellar callus thick; siphonal canal moderately long, somewhat oblique, wide.
description
Fig. 3 I
materials_examined
Examined material. 10 sh. (MACN-In 40681).
Name
- Homonyms
- Antistreptus magellanicus Dall 1902