Recluzia erythraea Jickeli, 1882
[dubious species]

Overview

This is a large, shelled pelagic snail. It lives in the pleuston and has no swimming fins. The dextral shell is highly coiled. The aperture is round. It is a carnivorous species preying on relatively large floating animals. It lives in the Red Sea.

Taxonomic Description

This is a large, shelled pelagic snail. It lives in the pleuston and has no swimming fins. The dextral shell is highly coiled. The aperture is round. Shell measurements: height 13 mm, diameter, 8.5 mm, aperture 6.3 mm high and 5.2 mm wide.

Juveniles

The juveniles have a dextrally coiled shell. A special description is not available.

Types

Recluzia erythraea Jickeli, 1882: 367
Type locality: Red Sea. Dahlak.

Original description

Testa perforata, elongato-ovata, tenuis, flavido-fusca apice albescente, nitidula, sub lente striis incrementi sculpta; spira turrita, apice acuto; anfractus 6 inflati, sutura obliqua, profunda separati, ultimus ventrosus; apertura rotundata, basi leviter recedens, margine columellari paulisper reflexo, vix torto, basali subeffusulo, marginibus callo tenui conjunctis.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Subclass Streptoneura
Order Mesogastropoda
Superfamily Epitoniacea
Family Janthinidae
Genus Recluzia
Species Recluzia erythraea

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Scientific synonyms and common names

Recluzia erythraea Jickeli, 1882

Synonyms

Recluzia erythraea n. sp. Jickeli, 1882: 367

Abbott, R. T., 1963. The Janthinid genus Recluzia in the Western Atlantic. Nautilus 76: 151.

Jickeli, C. F., 1882. Diagnosen neuer Conchylien. Jahrb. Deut. Malak. Gesells. 9: 366-370.

Lalli, C. M. and Gilmer, R. W., 1989. Pelagic snails. The biology of holoplanktonic gastropod mollusks. Stanford, California (Stanford University Press): viii +259 pp., 25 tabs, 76 figs, 16 color figs.

Mienis, H. K., 1987b. A review of the family Janthinidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in connection with the Tekhelet dye. In: The royal purple and the biblical blue Argamen and Tekhelet. (E. Spanier (ed) Keter Publ. House, Jerusalem Ltd: 197-205

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