Recluzia lutea (Bennett, 1840)
[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, the columella is straight. It is a carnivorous species predating on relatively large floating animals.

Taxonomic Description

This is a species of which nothing is known, and though it is not a nomen nudum, it is probably not a valid species.

Juveniles

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

Types

Janthina lutea Bennett, 1840: 298.
Types not indicted (non existing).
Type locality not given.
Original description: "In the course of the Narrative I have had occasion to mention a yellow and very rare species of this genus; and for which I should propose the name Janthina lutea."

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

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Scientific synonyms and common names

Recluzia lutea (Bennett, 1840)

Synonyms

Janthina lutea Bennett, 1840: 298.

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

Bennett, F. D., 1840. Narrative of a whaling voyage round the globe from the year 1833 to 1836. Comprising sketches of Polynesia, California, the Indian Archipelago, etc. with an account of southern whales, the sperm whale fishery and natural history of the climates visited. London R. Bentley, vol. 2: 298.

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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