Aclophoropsis festiva

Aclophoropsis festiva is a species of small sea snails in the family Triphoridae.

Description

This a small prettily marked species with two rows of granules on each whorl and with the interstices deeply punctured.

They have left-handed shell-coiling, (adult size from 6 – 12 mm) with very high spires.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.

References

• Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471
• Verco, J.C. 1909. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 277-292 [
• Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1931. South Australian shells. South Australian Naturalist 12(4): 51-63
• Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.

External links

• [https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.95.32803 Albano, P. G.; Bakker, P. A. J.; Sabelli, B. (2019). Annotated catalogue of the types of Triphoridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Natural History Museum of the United Kingdom, London. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 95(1): 161-308.]
• Marshall, B. A. (1983). A revision of the Recent Triphoridae of southern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, supplement. 2: 1-119