Amalda pacei

Amalda pacei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ancillariidae.[2]

Amalda pacei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Ancillariidae
Genus: Amalda
Species:
A. pacei
Binomial name
Amalda pacei
Petuch, 1987[1]
Synonyms[2]

Amalda zeigleri Ninomiya, 1987

Description

Original description: "Shell stocky, heavy, fusiform in shape; spire elevated; main section of body whorl with silky texture; suture bounded by wide band of enamel along shoulder region; spire whorls comprising two distinct zones, lower one with same silky texture of main body whorl, upper one with shiny enameled texture; fascicular band well-developed, surrounding anterior end of shell; shell color pale salmon-orange on main section of body whorl and lower zone of spire; enameled sub-sutural shoulder and fascicular bands bright orange, marked with evenly-spaced, dark orange-brown flammules; columella white, with one large twisted plication; interior of aperture pale salmon-orange; protoconch pale salmon in color, rounded, dome-shaped; operculum large, oval, dark tan in color."[3]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Off the Northern coast of Roatan Island, Honduras."[4]

References
  1. Petuch, E.J. (1987) New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas. The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 154 pp.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  2. Amalda pacei Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
  3. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 69. Publ: CERF
  4. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 69. Publ: CERF


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