Surrepifungium ingridae

Description:

Dimensions range from 20.8 mm - 30 mm high.
Width to height ratio: 00:1 ~ 00:1

Shell: vary between broad and relatively slender conical; thin, very fragile; moderately small. Exterior colour creamy white. About 13 whorls; body whorl large, almost half the height of the shell; protoconch with 2.7-3 whorls smooth apex, remainder sculptured with regularly spaced, very fine, incised, axial lines; teleoconch with ~10 whorls separated by deep suture.. Umbilicate: narrow but distinctly perforated, partly covered by the incurved columellar. Approximately 13 - 31 costae on the body whorl. Costae are surface sculptured with densely lamella, evenly spaced, orthocline, thin, lamellate costae. Costae extended at the suture; mostly continuous, but hardly touching each other. Intercostal spaces with numerous very fine spiral threads. Aperture subcircular. Operculum paucispiral, with interconnected coils.

Distribution:

Western Pacific, west of the Malaysian Peninsula; Indonesia, Palau; Queensland, Australia.

Habitat:

1-26m. Associated with mushroom corals, Fungia concinna Verrill, 1864, F. fungites, Heliofungia actiniformis, Herpolitha limax and Polyphyllia talpina (Lamarck, 1801)

Etymology:

This species is named after Ms. Ingrid van der Loo, Leiden

Type Material:

Holotype NNM 59088, from type locality. [Paratypes: NNM 59089/1, Indonesia, Sulawesi, off Ujung Pandang, W. Kudingareng Keke, 12 m; NNM 59090/2, 59092/1, E. Samalona, 9 m; NNM 59091/1, 24 m; NNM 59093/1, Bone Tambung, 7 m] for Surrepifungium ingridae (A. Gittenberger & Goud, 2000) - Type Locality: Holotype: Indonesia, Sulawesi, off Ujung Pandang, ESE. Kudingareng Keke, 15 m.. [Gittenberger, A., Goud & Gittenberger, E., 2000]