Doxospira hertleini
| Doxospira hertleini | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Doxospira |
| Species: | D. hertleini
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| Binomial name | |
| Doxospira hertleini Shasky, 1971
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Doxospira hertleini is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
Description
[edit]It was first described in Shasky, D.R. (1971). "Ten new species of tropical Eastern Pacific Turridae." The Veliger. 14(1): 67-72, 1 pl[2] where it was described as: "Shell rather large, fusiform; colour yellowish white with weak, yellowish brown bands on some specimens just superior to the suture, shell covered with a rather adherent brownish grey periostracum, protoconch of four eroded conical whorls; subsequent whorls about 12...Outer lip thin, gently flaring, smooth within and with a moderate stromboid notch at the lower end...Dimensions of holotype: height 41.8mm, diameter 16.6mm, length of aperture 18.5mm."[2]
In the original description, the author dedicates the new species of sea snail to "Dr Leo Hertlein of the California Academy of Sciences, San Fransico."[2]
Doxospira hertleini's feeding type is predatory. [3]
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Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica and Panama.
References
[edit]- ^ Doxospira hertleini Shasky, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ a b c California Malacozoological Society.; Society, California Malacozoological; Club, Northern California Malacozoological (1971). The veliger. Vol. v.14 (1971-1972). Berkeley, CA: California Malacozoological Society.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Doxospira hertleini Shasky, 1971". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
- Shasky, D.R. (1971) Ten new species of tropical Eastern Pacific Turridae. The Veliger, 14, 67–72, 1 pl[1]
External links
[edit]- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- "Doxospira hertleini". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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