Aforia kincaidi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae.[1][2]
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| Shell of Aforia kincaidi (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Cochlespiridae |
| Genus: | Aforia |
| Species: | A. kincaidi
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| Binomial name | |
| Aforia kincaidi (W. H. Dall, 1919)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Leucosyrinx kincaidi Dall, 1919 | |
Description
editThe height of the shell attains 29 mm, its diameter 13 mm.
(Original description) The shell, waxen white and moderately sized, has a fusiform shape with an acute spire. The siphonal canal is elongated. The protoconch consists of two smooth, bulbous whorls, followed by five additional whorls.
The axial sculpture exhibits only faint incremental lines. The spiral sculpture features a very prominent, thin, sharp peripheral keel and fine spiral striae with wider interspaces covering most of the surface. Toward the base, the interspaces become more rounded and coarser in texture.
The entire area between the keel and the preceding suture forms the anal fasciole, with a wide arcuate sulcus situated just ahead of the suture. The base of the shell is neatly rounded and tapers at the beginning of the siphonal canal. The outer lip is thin, sharp, and extends prominently forward. The inner lip is slightly erased. The columella slopes obliquely and tapers towards the front, exhibiting a gyrate shape with a minutely pervious axis. The siphonal canal is narrow and slender. The operculum is yellowish, ovate, and features an apical nucleus. [3]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the northern Pacific off Alaska and the Russian Federation.
References
edit- ^ a b Aforia kincaidi (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 August 2011.
- ^ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)" (PDF). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
- ^ United States National Museum, and William Healey Dall. Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. 1919 (described as Leucosyrinx kincaidi)
- Abbott R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls.