Epitonium commodum
(E. A. Smith, 1890)
Description:
Dimensions range from 5 mm - 5 mm high and 1.5 mm wide.
Width to height ratio: 0.3:1 ~ 0.3:1
Shell: narrow, elongated; minute. Exterior colour whitish. About 9 whorls; protoconch with ~3 whorls convex, smooth, glossy, and reddish; teleoconch with ~6 whorls. Suture wavy. Imperforate. Approximately 11 costae on the body whorl. Costae are thick, slightly oblique. Intercostal spaces multiple fine spiral ridges, forming a cancellated pattern, finely decussated by growth lines.. Aperture ovate-circular, being narrower at the top than at the base; outer lip outer lip is strongly thickened.
Distribution:
St. Helena
Habitat:
not reported
Etymology:
[latin]= from commodum = favourable or suitable
Type Material:
Syntypes: NHMUK 1889.10.1.603-7 [as Scalaria commoda E.A. Smith, 1890:] - Locality: St. Helena.. [Brown, L. & Neville, B.D., 2015]
Smith, E. A. (1890). Plate XXIII. Fig. 15.
SCALARIA COMMODA. (Plate XXIII. fig. 15.)
Distribution
as listed in source literature
Smith, E. A. (1890).
Plate XXIII. Fig. 15.
SCALARIA COMMODA. (Plate XXIII. fig. 15.)
