Hemilienardia balteata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Hemilienardia
Species:
H. balteata
Binomial name
Hemilienardia balteata
(Pease, 1860)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clathurella balteata Pease, 1860 (original combination)
  • Lienardia balteata (Pease, 1860)

Hemilienardia balteata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Description

(Original description) The shell is fusiformly ovate and longitudinally coarsely ribbed. The ribs are disposed alternately on the whorls, crossed by transverse raised striae. The whorls are roundly angulated at the sutures. The outer lip is incurved, serrated on its edge by the termination of the transverse striae. The colour is light brown, ornamented by one white band on centre of each whorl.[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Hawaii

References

  1. 1 2 MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Hemilienardia balteata (Pease, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=980545 on 2019-06-29
  2. ↑ W.H. Pease, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28: 143, 1860
  • Wiedrick S.G. (2017). Aberrant geomorphological affinities in four conoidean gastropod genera, Clathurella Carpenter, 1857 (Clathurellidae), Lienardia Jousseaume, 1884 (Clathurellidae), Etrema Hedley, 1918 (Clathurellidae) and Hemilienardia Boettger, 1895 (Raphitomidae), with the description of fourteen new Hemilienardia species from the Indo-Pacific. The Festivus. special issue: 2-45.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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