Aporrhais senegalensis is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aporrhaidae, the pelican's foot snails or pelican's foot shells.
Description
(Original description) The shell is regular and features spiral striations. The upper whorls exhibit a single central series of small nodules, while the body whorl possesses two subcentral nodule series. A third series of much smaller tubercles is present anterior to (in front of) the main nodules. The outer lip is characterized by two sharp, expanded lobes.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off West Africa.
References
- Gofas, S., Afonso, J.P. & BrandÃÂ o, M. (1985). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp. Printed without date.
- Rolán E. (2005). Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. ConchBooks. Hackenheim. ISBN 3-325319-73-2. 455 pp
- Bernard P.A. (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140 pp, 75 plates, illus.
- Wieneke, U. & Liverani, V. (2019). Review of the Recent Endemic West African Aporrhaidae (Gastropoda: Stromboidea), with the re-establishment of Aporrhais elegantissima PARENZAN, 1970 and records of putative hybridization in the genus Aporrhais. Conchylia. 50(1-4), 147-162.
External links