Amaea elegantula
Garcia, 2003
Description:
Dimensions range from 41.1 mm - 68 mm high and 9 mm wide.
Width to height ratio: 0.22:1 ~ 0.13:1
Shell: orthoconic; light but solid; medium. Exterior colour ivory, with two very faint brownish spots. About 17 whorls, convex with sharp keel at periphery of shoulder. Suture indented. Imperforate: umbilicus closed. Approximately 50 costae on the body whorl. Costae are crowded, narrow, relatively flat. There are 2 varices on each whorl. The varices are very thin and erect and appear on the penultimate and body whorls. Intercostal spaces with well-developed cords which create a fenstrate pattern of squares when crossed by the costae. Interstices with approximately 8 spiral striae per whorl. Base with inconspicuous ridge, basal disc with flat reticulate pattern. Aperture subcircular; outer lip broken in the holotype, but with evidence of a thin varix. Operculum unknown.
Distribution:
Loyalty Ridge, New Caledonia
Habitat:
695-702 m
Etymology:
[Latin] from elegantulus = very fine, a reference to the elegant shape and sculpturing of the shell.
Type Material:
Holotype: MNHN length 41.4 mm, width 9 mm. for Amaea elegantula Garcia, 2003 - Locality: Loyalty Ridge, New Caledonia, 23°54'S, 169°48°E, 695-702 m [BATHUS 3, sta. DW787]. [Garcia, E.F., 2003]
Holotype: MNHN 4192 [as Amaea elegantula García, 2003] - Locality: BATHUS 3 station DW787, Loyalty Ridge, New Caledonia, 23o 54'S, 169o 48'E, 695-702 m. [Brown, L. & Neville, B.D., 2015]
Garcia, E.F. (2003). pp: 9. Fig. 20-21.
Amaea elegantula n. sp. Loyalty Ridge, New Caledonia,
23''54'S. 169°48' E, 695-702 m [BATHUS 3, sta. DW787], width 9 mm. 2
Distribution
as listed in source literature
Garcia, E.F. (2003).
pp: 9. Fig. 20-21.
Amaea elegantula n. sp. Loyalty Ridge, New Caledonia,
23''54'S. 169°48' E, 695-702 m [BATHUS 3, sta. DW787], width 9 mm. 2
