Detail
    Search from Shellbase         
Class
Gastropoda 
 
Class_C
腹足綱 
Order
Neogastropoda 
Order_C
新腹足目 
Family
Coralliophilidae 
Family_C
珊瑚螺科 
Genus_C
 
Scientific Name
Babelomurex spinosus
Nomenclator
(Hirase, 1908) 
Chinese Name
台灣花仙螺 
Common_C
 
Synonym
pagodus Adams, 1853 
Common_E
 
World Distribution

 
Taiwan Distribution
澎湖 
Character
殼為淡紅褐色,螺塔高而肩上有棘,越靠近殼底棘越大,體螺層的大棘下有縱肋,體螺層除大棘外於大棘下方仍有一排小棘,螺層間的交界色深,螺層下方有密集的環狀褶紋,成熟螺殼口有外翻現象。
 Shell pale reddish brown. Spire high conical with dense, large trigonal spines on shoulder. Periphery and spinous basal cords crossed by varices. Intervaricial spaces fenestrated with dark coloration. Middle Hoshu, southward to Australia. Latiaxis spinosus multispinosus Shikama, 1966 is an infraspecific variation with broad and coronate spines.
Reference
100072200142 


Copyright © Digital Archives Program Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
128 Academia Road Sec. 2, Nankang Taipei 115 Taiwan.
Creative Commons LicenseExcept where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Taiwan License