Epitonium grayi
(Nyst, 1871)
Description:
Dimensions range from 33.9 mm - 38 mm high and 16.9 mm wide.
Width to height ratio: 0.5:1 ~ 0.44:1
Shell: conical, turreted; moderately small. Exterior colour white. About 9 whorls; teleoconch with spiral striations. Suture simple. Perforated. Costae are rather close, thin, equal. Intercostal spaces minutely, closely and regularly spirally striated. Aperture ovate.
Distribution:
Flores Sea, Indonesia; Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia
Habitat:
not listed
Etymology:
No etymology is provided in the original source documents; however, based on the Latin genitive suffix "-i", the name most likely honours a man with the surname Gray. Most possibly John Edward Gray [1800-1875] -the British zoologist, shell collector, and malacologist.
Type Material:
Syntypes: MNHN 1769, ZMB 299 [as Scala dubia 'G.B. Sowerby II' de Boury, 1912] - Type Locality: Port Essington (nord de l'Australie) and Florès (Océanie).. [Brown, L. & Neville, B.D., 2015]
Type not located [as Scalaria striata Gray, 1847: ~ Scalaria grayi Nyst, 1871] - Type Locality: Port Essington, Australia.. [Brown, L. & Neville, B.D., 2015]
Gray, J. E. (1847). Plate 2. Fig. 6.
Distribution
as listed in source literature
Gray, J. E. (1847).
Shown in text as Scalaria striata Gray, 1847 ·
Plate 2. Fig. 6.
pp: 358.
Nyst, H. (1873).
pp: 12.
