Cerithiopsilla burdwoodiana Melvill & Standen 1912

• Main Authors: Luca, Javier Di, Zelaya, Diego G.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Littorinimorpha; Cerithiopsidae; Cerithiopsilla; Cerithiopsilla burdwoodiana; Antarctic; Burdwood Bank; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5934596; https://zenodo.org/record/5934596

Cerithiopsilla burdwoodiana (Melvill & Standen, 1912) Fig. 2L Bittium burdwoodianum Melvill & Standen, 1912: 125, fig. 12 Cerithiopsilla burdwoodiana — Linse, 1997: 30, pl. 10, fig. c Examined material. 56 sh. (MACN-In 40674); 3 syntypes (NMSZ 1921.143.643). Description. Shell height to 5.2 mm; turritelliform, moderately solid. Protoconch large, gradated, of about 1.5 whorls, sculptured with 22 to 24 strong, closely arranged, axial ribs; transition to teleoconch not clearly defined. Teleoconch of up to 9.5 whorls, almost straight in outline; last whorl comprising about 25% of total shell height. Suture impressed. Surface brownish, clearest at the base and the sutures on last whorls; sculptured with 18 to 21 axial ribs per whorl and 3 prominent spiral cords, which produce large beads at their intersections. An additional, lower, smooth cord appears at the suture and delimits the base. Axial sculpture vanishing on last whorls in some specimens. Aperture subquadrate, interior brownish; columellar callus narrow; siphonal canal short, markedly oblique, wide. : Published as part of Luca, Javier Di & Zelaya, Diego G., 2019, Gastropods from the Burdwood Bank (southwestern Atlantic): an overview of species diversity, pp. 41-78 in Zootaxa 4544 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2618137 : {"references": ["Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1912) The marine Mollusca of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Part 2. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 48, 105 - 140, 1 pl.", "Linse, K. (1997) Die Verbreitung epibenthischer Mollusken im chilenischen Beagle-Kanal. Berichte Polarforsch, 228, 1 - 130."]}