Buchema bellula explained

Buchema bellula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family of Horaiclavidae.

It was formerly included within the family Turridae.^[1]

Description

The size of the fusiform shell varies between 6 mm and 8.5 mm, its diameter is 3.4 mm. The shell contains 8 whorls of which the first two in the protoconch. The aperture spans about ⅓ of the whole length. The sinus is of mediocre size. The siphonal canal is very short and recurved to the left. The white band encircling the whorls includes three of the spiral lirations which are thickened upon the obsolete ribs. In fact, each rib might be said to be composed of the thickening of the lirae.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent and Aruba

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
• Fallon, Phillip J, Descriptions and illustrations of some new and poorly known turrids of the tropical northwestern Atlantic. Part 1. Genera Buchema Corea, 1934 and Miraclathurella Woodring, 1928 (Gastropoda: Turridae: Crassispirinae); Nautilus 124, 2010
  • Specimen at MNHN, Paris

Notes and References

1. Rosenberg, G. (2015). Buchema bellula (E. A. Smith, 1882). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532470 on 2017-01-04
2. https://archive.org/details/annalsmagazineof5101882lond Smith, E.A. (1882) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, 10, 206–218