Hybochelus cancellatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chilodontidae.[2][3]
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| Drawing of a shell of Hybochelus cancellatus with in detail its sculpture. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Seguenzioidea |
| Family: | Chilodontaidae |
| Genus: | Hybochelus |
| Species: | H. cancellatus
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| Hybochelus cancellatus | |
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Description edit
The size of the shell varies between 10 mm and 20 mm. The depressed, umbilicate shell is helicoid or almost stomatia-shaped. The body whorl and aperture are very large. Its color is reddish-brown, marked with white on the spiral ribs. The small spire is very short. The four whorls are convex, the inner 1½ are smooth, the rest have strong, separated spiral lirae, the interstices wider than the lirae, rendered pitted by raised, regular rib-striae each interliral interval with a central spiral thread. There are 3 principal lirae on the penultimate whorl. The outer lip is inserted on the fourth. On the base of the shell there are 8 concentric lirae, alternately larger and smaller, the inner one bounding the umbilicus and spirally entering it. The large aperture is oblique, finely sulcate, pearly and iridescent inside. The outer lip is thin. The columella is arcuate, not toothed, a trifle reflexed above, connected with the upper lip by a short, shining, white callus. The narrow umbilicus is funnel-shaped.[4]
Distribution edit
This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Australia. It was previously erroneously described from the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.[5]
References edit
- ^ Krauss, DieSiidaf Moll., p. 93, t. 5, f 26, 1848.
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2012). Hybochelus cancellatus (Krauss, 1848). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547226 on 2013-04-14
- ^ Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands. Visaya Supplement 2: 1-228.
- ^ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Euchelus cancellatus)
- ^ Herbert D.G. (2012) A revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of southern Africa and the south-western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates, 53(2): 381–502
- Herbert D.G. (1996) A critical review of the trochoidean types in the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Bordeaux (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, ser. 4, 18 (A, 3-4): 409-445
External links edit
- To Encyclopedia of Life
- To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
- To World Register of Marine Species
- "Hybochelus cancellatus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.