Alcithoe chathamensis
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| Alcithoe chathamensis (Dell, 1956) |
Alcithoe chathamensis is a species of medium-sized deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
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[edit] Range of distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand's Chatham Islands.
[edit] Habitat
This volute lives at depths of between 220 and 550 m.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is small, narrowly fusiform, with lightly convex whorls, and a tall spire. The pillar has four evenly developed, rather weak oblique plaits.
The shell colour is light orange-brown, with distant short longitudinal streaks of dark reddish-brown, forming three spiral zones on the body whorl.
The shell height is up to 47 mm, and width up to 18 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
