Orbitestella ponderi Linse 2002
- Dataset
- Gastropods from the Burdwood Bank (southwestern Atlantic): an overview of species diversity
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Archaeogastropoda
- family
- Orbitestellidae
- genus
- Orbitestella
- species
- Orbitestella ponderi
description
Description. Shell width to 0.7 mm (up to 1.04 mm according to Linse 2002); discoidal, with spire only slightly raised; delicate. Protoconch of 1.25 bulbous whorls. Teleoconch of up to 2 whorls, markedly convex in outline, with straight shoulder. Suture deep, slightly channeled. Surface white; sculptured with 19 to 24 strong, markedly prosocline, axial ribs per whorl; interspaces with numerous spiral threads. Aperture rounded, interior white. Umbilicus wide, rounded. Operculum rounded, multispiral; pale brown, translucent.
description
Fig. 5 A
materials_examined
Examined material. 1 an. and 13 sh. (MACN-In 40697).
Name
- Homonyms
- Orbitestella ponderi Linse 2002