Attiliosa nodulosa
| Attiliosa nodulosa | |
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| Shell of Attiliosa nodulosa (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Attiliosa |
| Species: | A. nodulosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Attiliosa nodulosa (A. Adams, 1854)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Attiliosa nodulosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
The length of the holotype attains 31.5 mm, its diameter 19 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is ovate-fusiform and umbilicate (having a small navel-like depression). It is whitish and wax-colored, nearly smooth, and marked by faint transverse grooves and longitudinal knot-like folds. The spire is pyramidal and is encircled at the sutures by a row of small nodules.
The body whorl is obtusely angled in the middle. The aperture is oval, and the columella is equipped with faint folds toward the front. The outer lip is strongly lirate (ridged) on the inside, with the front margin being angled. The siphonal canal is short and recurved.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Mexico, Panama and Ecuador.
References
- ^ a b Attiliosa nodulosa (A. Adams, 1854). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- ^ Adams, A. (1855). "Description of twenty-seven new species of shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1854 (22): 313. Retrieved 31 December 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Berry S.S. (1960). Notices of new eastern Pacific Mollusca.- IV. Leaflets in Malacology. 1(19): 115-122.
External links
- Vokes, E.H. (1999). "Another look at the muricine genus Attiliosa". The Veliger. 42 (4). Retrieved 30 December 2025.