Africotriton fictilis explained
Africotriton fictilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Description
The length of the shell attains 21 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The solid, ovate shell has a gray color. The whorls are rounded with longitudinal, obliquely folded ribs and narrow transverse striae. The spirals barely extend beyond the aperture, which is polished, deep, and smoothed with a contracted callous opening.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Agulhas Bank, South Africa.
References
- Beu, A. G.; Maxwell, P. A. (1987). A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin. 54: 1-140.
- Steyn, D. G.; Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
- Hemmen, J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp
- Verhecken A. (2020). New and poorly known species of Cancellariidae (Neogastropoda: Cancellarioidea) from the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific. Gloria Maris. 59(2): 40-89.
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