Paramontana modesta explained

Paramontana modesta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.^[1]

This species has also been considered a synonym of Pseudodaphnella pullula Hervier, R.P.J., 1897^[2]

Description

The original description written by George French Angas is as follows: "The fusiformly turreted, shell is solid and fulvous brown. The 5½ whorls are convex, stoutly and distantly longitudinally ribbed, and crossed with prominent erect ridges becoming sharply nodulous at the intersection. The spire is sharp. The aperture is narrowly ovate. The outer lip is somewhat flattened and thickened, strongly dentate within. The columella is a little sinuous, with a few small granulations at the base of the whorl. The posterior sinus is rather broad."^[3]

As is frequently the case in this genus, this species has a light and a dark colour dimorphism. A brown specimen in the British Museum presented by Angas is marked there as the type.^[4]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria.

References

• Verco, J.C. 1909. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 293–342
• Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales pp. 56, pls 1–12
• Powell, A.W.B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae, an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with list of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 5: 1–184, pls 1–23

External links

• Tucker . J.K. . 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) . Zootaxa . 682 . 1–1295 . 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 .

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. "Paramontana modesta (Angas, 1877)". Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 August 2019
2. http://www.gastropods.com/1/Shell_43621.shtml Gastropods.com: Pseudodaphnella pullula
3. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/90436#page/5/mode/1up Angas, G.F. 1877. Descriptions of two genera and twenty species of marine shells from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 34-40, pl. 5
4. https://archive.org/details/revisionofaustri00hedl Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56