Species of gastropod
Paraborsonia lindae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
Description
Original description: "Shell short, stocky, biconic in shape; shoulder rounded, demarcated by 2 large, beaded cords; body whorl ornamented with 20-25 fine, beaded spiral cords; subsutural area indented, slightly canaliculate; columella with 3 large plications; interior of aperture with numerous ribs; protoconch large, flattened on top; anal notch corresponding to canaliculate subsutural area, deep and narrow; shell color pale yellow with darker yellow crescent-shaped flammules along the shoulder; anterior tip of columella dark yellow; interior of aperture white."[2]
The length of the shell attains 16 mm.
Distribution
Locus typicus: "Golfo de Triste, off Puerto Cabello, Venezuela."[2]
This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela and Guadeloupe
References
- Petuch, Edward J. New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas. (1987).
- Petuch, Edward J. Biogeography and biodiversity of Western Atlantic mollusks. CRC Press, 2013.
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