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Hindsiclava tippetti

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Hindsiclava tippetti
Shell of Hindsiclava tippetti (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Hindsiclava
Species:
H. tippetti
Binomial name
Hindsiclava tippetti
Petuch, 1987

Hindsiclava tippetti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Description

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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

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Locus typicus: "35 m. depth, Rosalind Bank, Honduras."[3]

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Honduras.

References

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  1. ^ a b Hindsiclava tippetti Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 76. Publ: CERF
  3. ^ 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
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  • 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).