Paracuneus immaculatus

Paracuneus immaculatus
Apertural view of a shell of Paracuneus immaculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Paracuneus
Species: P. immaculatus
Binomial name
Paracuneus immaculatus
(Tenison-Woods, 1876) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Drillia gabrieli Pritchard, G.B. & J.H. Gatliff, 1899
  • Drillia immaculatus (Tenison-Woods, 1876)
  • Drillia spadix (Watson, 1886)
  • Inquisitor immaculatus (Tenison-Woods, 1876)
  • Inquisitor spadix (Watson, 1886)
  • Mangelia immaculata Tenison-Woods, 1876 (basionym)
  • Paracuneus spadix Watson, R.B., 1886
  • Paracuneus spadix tumulus Laseron, C.F., 1954
  • Pleurotoma (Drillia) spadix Watson, 1886

Paracuneus immaculatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]

Subspecies

Description

The shell grows to a length of 19 mm, its diameter 6 mm.

(Original description) The white and shining shell is fusiformly turretted. The spire is acute. The shell contains 9 sloping whorls. These are canaliculate at the sutures, angulate and obsoletely tuberculate above, and transversely obsoletely lirate. The aperture is oval. The outer lipis thin. The sinus is conspicuous. The lip is simple and tuberculate above. [4]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs in the demersal zone off New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, Australia.

References

  1. Tenison-Woods, J.E. (1876) On some new species of Tasmanian marine shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1875, 134–162.
  2. 1 2 Paracuneus immaculatus (Tenison-Woods, 1876).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 November 2011.
  3. Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
  4. Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131-159
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