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Finella pupoides

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Finella pupoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Scaliolidae
Genus: Finella
Species:
F. pupoides
Binomial name
Finella pupoides
Adams A., 1860
Synonyms[1]
  • Alaba striata Watson, 1886
  • Eufenella ichikawaensis Yokoyama, M., 1927
  • Eufenella perpupoides Yokoyama, M., 1927
  • Eufenella pupoides (A. Adams, 1860)
  • Fenella perpupoidesYokoyama, 1927
  • Fenella pupoides A. Adams, 1864
  • Fenella pyrrhacusa Melvill, J.C. & R. Standen, 1896
  • Finella columna (Laseron, 1956)
  • Finella pyrrhacme (Melvill & Standen, 1896)
  • Finella striata (Watson, 1886) (probable synonym)
  • Obtortio columna Laseron, 1956 (probable synonym)
  • Obtortio striata (Watson, 1886)
  • Obtortio pupoides Bosch, Dance, Moolenbeek & Oliver, 1995
  • Obtortio pyrrhacme Hedley, 1899
  • Obtortio (Alabina) pyrrhacme Wenz, 1940
  • Obtortio (Alabina) pupoides Wenz, 1940
  • Rissoa ichikawensis Yokoyama, 1927
  • Rissoa joviana Melvill & Standen, 1896 (possible synonym)
  • Rissoia pyrrhacme Melvill, J.C. & R. Standen, 1896

Finella pupoides is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Scaliolidae.[2]

Description

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The shell size varies between 2 mm and 4 mm. Its color varies from white to pale yellow, a few times even dark brown. The shell shows typically two indistinct brown bands below the suture and at the base. The shell is elongate, fusiform with a narrow, pointed apex. This protoconch is smooth and contains about 2.5 whorls. The whorls are rather inflated and have deeply marked sutures. The sculpture of the teleoconch has characteristic flat-topped spiral cords with rather weak axial ribs. These form a fine reticulate pattern on the upper whorls. This axial sculpture is reduced to absent on the body whorl. The aperture is semicircular. The narrow columella is curved.[3]

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along Réunion and in the Pacific Ocean in Southeast Asia and Japan; and as non-indigenous marine species through the Suez Canal in European waters and the Mediterranean Sea

Habitat

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This species is found in sand or on mud in the sublittoral zone of bays at a depth of 10 m. Live species are rare and this species can be regarded as an endangered species.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Eufenella pupoides". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  2. ^ Finella pupoides Adams A., 1860. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 August 2012.
  3. ^ a b Hasegawa K., 1998. A review of recent Japanese species previously assigned to Eufenella and Clathrofenella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cerithioidea). Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 31: 165-186; accessed : 24 November 2010
  • Adams A. (1860) On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (3)5: 299-303
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.
  • Laseron C.F. (1956) The families Rissoinidae and Rissoidae (Mollusca) from the Solanderian and Dampierian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7(3): 384-484. [October 1956] page(s): 463
  • Hasegawa K. (1998) A review of Recent Japanese species previously assigned to Eufenella and Clathrofenella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cerithioidea). Memoiurs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 31: 165-186
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 43: 419-453
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