Antiplanes catalinae

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Antiplanes catalinae
Sinistral specimen of Antiplanes catalinae (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Antiplanes
Species:
A. catalinae
Binomial name
Antiplanes catalinae
(Raymond, 1904)
Synonyms[2]
  • Antiplanes gabbi Kantor & Sysoev, 1991
  • Antiplanes major Bartsch, 1944
  • Antiplanes perversus (Gabb, 1865)
  • Antiplanes voyi sensu Abbott, 1974
  • Bela perversa Gabb, 1865
  • Pleurotoma catalinae Raymond, 1904 (original combination)
  • Pleurotoma perversa Gabb, 1865 ·
  • Pleurotoma (Antiplanes) catalinae Raymond, 1904 (basionym)
  • Spirotropis (Antiplanes) perversa (Gabb, 1865) (invalid: junior homonym of Pleurotoma perversa Philippi, 1847; Antiplanes gabbi is a replacement name)
  • Pleurotoma (Surcula) perversa Gabb, 1865 (invalid: junior homonym of Pleurotoma perversa Philippi, 1847; Antiplanes gabbi is a replacement name)

Antiplanes catalinae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 27 mm, its diameter 7.6 mm.

(Original description) The sinistral shell is thin, elongated and slender. It contains 10-11 whorls. Its color is light, pinkish -brown, without bands. The interior of the aperture is a little lighter: The upper whorls are more or less chalky. The protoconch is smooth and inflated. The later whorls are convex. The suture is deeply impressed. The shell is sculptured by fine incremental lines and on the last whorls a few obscure, spiral striations, mostly below the periphery. The anal fascicle is traceable on the spire as a flattened or obscurely grooved band. The aperture is narrow. The siphonal canal is wide and short. The columella is nearly straight, with a well-defined callus, obliquely truncate below. The outer lip is produced and deeply emarginate near the sutural margin of the whorl.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs off the Pacific coast of Canada and the United States.

References

  1. ^ Bartsch, P. (1944). "Some turrid mollusks of Monterey Bay and vicinity". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 57: 57–68.
  2. ^ a b Antiplanes catalinae (Raymond, 1904). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
  3. ^ Raymond W.J. 1904. Two new species of Pleurotoma from California. The Nautilus, 18: 1–3
  • McLean J.H. (1996). The Prosobranchia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 1–160