Perrinia cancellata

Perrinia cancellata
Original drawing with two views of a shell of Perrinia cancellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Chilodontidae
Genus: Perrinia
Species: P. cancellata
Binomial name
Perrinia cancellata
(Schepman, 1908)
Synonyms[1]
  • Calliostoma (Perrinia) cancellatum Schepman, 1908 (original combination)

Perrinia cancellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chilodontidae.[1][2]

Description

(Original description by M.M. Schepman) The size of the shell varies between 7 mm and 12 mm. The elevated-conical, imperforate shell has convex sides. It is yellowish-white, with a nacreous lustre and numerous yellowish-brown spots, which are darker near the upper part of each whorl and on the third whorl, the first and second being without markings. The nucleus is wanting, remaining five, slightly convex whorls with a narrow canaliculate suture. The first whorl has rather distant ribs. The next whorls have 3 spiral lirae (fine linear elevations) and radiating ribs. The last 3 whorls contain 5 spirals and thinner radiating ribs, which make the shell cancellated. These ribs become lamellose (with flared axial projections) on the lower whorls. The lirae are beaded where the ribs cross them, less obvious on the lower whorls, the uppermost of the lirae on each whorl with a series of small tubercles, giving a coronated appearance to the whorls. The body whorl is rounded, the peripheral spiral being only very little prominent. The base of the shell is convex, with 6 beaded lirae, cancellated by numerous, irregular, radiating ribs. The aperture is nearly rounded. The outer and basal margins are rounded, thin, thickened interiorly, with about 17 short lirae on the internal rib, of which that near the columella slightly tooth-like. The columella is cylindrical, rather straight, with a tooth-like fold at the base, bordering a rounded notch. The parietal wall is callous. The interior of the aperture has a few grooves.[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Timor, Indonesia.

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Perrinia cancellata (Schepman, 1908). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547175 on 2013-04-14
  2. ↑ Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands. Visaya Supplement 2: 1-228.
  3. ↑ Schepman 1908-1913, The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition; Leyden,E. J. Brill,1908-13 (described as Calliostoma (Perrinia) cancellatum )
External identifiers for Perrinia cancellata
Encyclopedia of Life 18652649
WoRMS 547175
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