Lienardia rigida
Drawing of Lienardia rigida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Clathurellidae
Genus: Lienardia
Species:
L. rigida
Binomial name
Lienardia rigida
(Hinds, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clathurella affinis Dall, W.H., 1871
  • Clathurella rigida (Hinds, 1843)
  • Clavatula rigida Hinds, 1843
  • Mangilia rigida Hinds, 1843

Lienardia rigida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clathurellidae.[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 6.3 mm and 8 mm. The color of the shell is fulvous. The shoulder undulates at the angle by the longitudinal ribs, which are crossed by raised striae.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California, Panama and the Galapagos Islands.

References

  1. 1 2 MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Lienardia rigida (Hinds, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=980525 on 2019-08-18
  2. ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 269; 1884 (described as Mangilia rigida)
  • 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


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