Struthiolaria vermis flemingi

Taxobox
name = "Struthiolaria vermis flemingi"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
sub_classis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Mesogastropoda
familia = Struthiolariidae
genus = "Struthiolaria"
species = "S. vermis"
subspecies = "S. vermis flemingi"
trinomial = "Struthiolaria vermis flemingi"
trinomial_authority = Neef, 1970
synonyms =

"Struthiolaria vermis flemingi", known as a kind of ostrich foot shell (as are all the members of the family), is a subspecies of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Struthiolariidae.

Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.

Habitat

This large snail is found near low tide on muddy sand beaches, and off coastal beaches to about 55 m, where it is buried just below the surface.

Description

The shell is larger and more solid than typical "Struthiolaria vermis" subspecies, the body whorl is inflated, non-tuberculate, the suture is very deeply but narrowly channelled and the colour pattern is of broad ill-defined axial stripes on a creamy-white ground.

The shell height is up to 54 mm, and width up to 36 mm

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1