Aphera lindae
| Aphera lindae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Aphera |
| Species: | A. lindae
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| Binomial name | |
| Aphera lindae Petuch, 1987
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Aphera lindae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
Description
Original description: "Shell solid, thickened, oval-elliptical in shape, shiny; entire shell surface covered with numerous fine axial ribs and numerous fine spiral cords; axial ribs and spiral cords of equal size, intersecting to produce finely cancellate sculpture; columella wide, reflected onto body whorl as polished enameled area; columella with 2 large, equal-sized plications; edge of lip crenulated; interior of aperture with 15 lirae which disappear farther inside; color pure white with single large pale tan patch on dorsum; interior of aperture and columella white."[2]
Distribution
Locus typicus: "Golfo de Triste, off Puerto Cabello, Venezuela."[3]
References
- ^ Aphera lindae Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 110. Publ: CERF
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 110. Publ: CERF