Dermomurex glicksteini explained

Dermomurex glicksteini is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Description

Original description: "Shell elongated, fusiform, with elevated spire and well developed siphonal canal; whorls with 3 large blade like varices; intervarical areas with 1 large, keeled axial nob, whorls ornamented with numerous raised spiral threads; aperture large, oval in shape; inner edge of lip with 6 large red denticles; shell color mottled khaki-green and tan, overlaid with darker tannish brown banding along the suture and on siphonal canal; intritacalx thick, chalky, light tan in color; interior of aperture light tan."[1]

The shell grows to a length of 16 mm.

Distribution

Locus typicus: "(Trawled from) 150 metres depth, off Palm Beach Island, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA."[2]

This marine species occurs off Eastern Florida, USA and the Bermudas.

References

Notes and References

  1. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 25. Publ: CERF
  2. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 25. Publ: CERF