Amauropsis aureolutea
| Amauropsis aureolutea | |
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| Shell of Amauropsis aureolutea (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Naticidae |
| Genus: | Amauropsis |
| Species: | A. aureolutea
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| Binomial name | |
| Amauropsis aureolutea (Strebel, 1908)
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| Synonyms | |
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Natica aureolutea Strebel, 1908 (original combination) | |
Amauropsis aureolutea is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1]
Description
[edit]The maximum recorded shell length is 32 mm. The minimum recorded depth is 6 m, while the maximum recorded depth is 662 m.[2]
(Original description in German) The shell is orange-brown in color. It is more spherical in contrast to the more rhomboid-rounded contour of Amauropsis anderssoni. The umbilicus is concealed by a protruding tongue of the columellar overhang. The apex features a larger nucleus than that of A. anderssoni, though the operculum remains the same.
The sculpture consists of growth lines and a faint, somewhat irregularly arranged, dense grooving. The suture lacks a compressed zone. [3]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, South Sandwich islands and in the Southern Ocean.
References
[edit]- ^ Amauropsis aureolutea(Strebel, 1908). 8 January 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
- ^ Strebel, H. (1908). Die Gastropoden. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903 unter Leitung von Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld, Bd 6,. Stockholm. p. 63. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
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- Pastorino, G. (2005). Recent Naticidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Patagonian coast. The Veliger. 47 (4): 225–258.
- Engl, W. (2012). Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.
External links
[edit]- Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011). "Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae" (PDF). Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum. 7: 1–133.
- Griffiths, H.J.; Linse, K.; Crame, J.A. (2003). "SOMBASE - Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution". Organisms Diversity and Evolution. 3: 207–213.
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