Epitonium albolineatum
(G. B. Sowerby, 1844)
Description:
Dimensions range from 14 mm - 14 mm high.
Width to height ratio: 00:1 ~ 00:1
Shell: narrow, pyramidal; small. Exterior colour pale tan to fawn white, brown-purple between the varices, costae white. About 8 whorls, connected. Spire elevated. Approximately 12 costae on the body whorl. Costae are fairly thick, faintly angled at the middle. Aperture small, rounded.
Distribution:
Philippines to Queensland, Australia [Kaicher, 1981:EP2-3074]
Habitat:
not given
Etymology:
[latin] from albus = white and lineatus = lined, in reference to the white costae against the tan colour of the shell
Type Material:
Holotype: NHMUK 1981035 (probable holotype). [as Scalaria albolineata G.B. Sowerby II, 1844:] - Type Locality: per Weil et al. (1999: 99, fig. 303), Luzon, Philippines.. [Brown, L. & Neville, B.D., 2015]
Sowerby, G. B. II. (1844). Plate xxxiii. Fig. 52.
Distribution
as listed in source literature
Sowerby, G. B. II. (1844).
pp: 100.
original description
Plate xxxiii. Fig. 52.
Reeve, L.A. (1873).
Shown in text as Scalaria albolineata G.B. Sowerby II, 1844:
Plate viii. Fig. 57.
Tryon, G.W. (1887).
Plate 14. Fig. 30.
pp: 68.
Clessin, S. (1897).
Plate 14. Fig. 7.
pp: 55.
Shell small, narrowly pyramidal, dark purplish-brown between the varices; spire elevated; whorls eight; varices white, numerous, rather thick, faintly angled at the middle; aperture small, round.
Kaicher, S.D. (1981).
