Protoelongata xerampelina
Drawing of a shell of Protoelongata xerampelina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Turbinelloidea
Family: Costellariidae
Genus: Protoelongata
Species:
P. xerampelina
Binomial name
Protoelongata xerampelina
(Melvill, 1895)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra xerampelina Melvill, 1895
  • Vexillum (Protoelongata) xerampelinum (Melvill, 1895)
  • Vexillum xerampelinum (Melvill, 1895)

Protoelongata xerampelina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1][2]

Description

(Described as Mitra xerampelina) This is a somewhat shining, dark-red shell, cylindraceous, much attenuate and black towards the apex. It contains ten whorls. It is longitudinally costate, the ribs compressed, and is transversely finely striate. The last three whorls are more or less ventricose. The siphonal canal is slightly produced and recurved. In the type specimen, the epidermis is still adherent to the interstices of the body whorl, between the ribs.[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Aden.

References

  1. 1 2 MolluscaBase (2018). Protoelongata xerampelina (Melvill, 1895). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=957093 on 2018-12-31
  2. ↑ Fedosov A.E., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Dgebuadze P. & Bouchet P. (2017). Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of the family Costellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179(3): 541-626.
  3. ↑ Melvill, J. C. (1897). Descriptions of thirty-four species of marine Mollusca from the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman. (Mostly collected by F. W. Townsend, Esq.). Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Litterary and Philosophical Society. 41(7): 1-25 , pls 6-7
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