Hindsiclava tippetti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
| Hindsiclava tippetti | |
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| Shell of Hindsiclava tippetti (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: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Hindsiclava |
| Species: | H. tippetti
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| Binomial name | |
| Hindsiclava tippetti Petuch, 1987
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Description edit
Original description: "Shell large for genus, elongate, with elevated spire; shell ornamented with numerous equal-sized axial and spiral cords that are arranged in cancellate pattern; intersection of axial and spiral cord producing large, rounded bead; early whorls with large beaded axial ribs; axial ribs are replaced with cancellate-beaded sculpture on later whorls; subsutural area with large, wide, raised band and channeled unsculptured area that corresponds to anal notch; anal notch wide, deep; aperture narrow; shell color dark brown with tan beads; early whorls and protoconch dark brown; interior of aperture brown."[2]
The length of the shell varies between 27 mm and 75 mm.
Distribution edit
Locus typicus: "35 m. depth, Rosalind Bank, Honduras."[3]
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Honduras.
References edit
- ^ a b Hindsiclava tippetti Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 76. Publ: CERF
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 76. Publ: CERF
- Petuch, E.J. 1987. New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas.The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 154 pp.
- B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1–221
External links edit
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- "Hindsiclava tippetti". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Kabat, Alan R. "Donn Lloyd Tippett (January 14, 1924 – January 29, 2014)." American Conchologist 42.2 (2014).
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