Gastropoda Stromboidea | Species / Aporrhais Pesgallinae

Species / Aporrhais Pesgallinae

Stromboidea

Original Description of Aporrhais pes-gallinae by Barnard, 1963, p. 67:

"Posterior spiniform process quite free from spire. Outer lip with two slender processes, the margin between the anterior one and the beginning of the canal slightly convex, but with scarcely any suggestion of an incipient lobe or denticle. Anterior canal tapering evenly, without flange-like expansion of the edge of the columellar callus. The 'webbing' between the claws much less extensive than in pes-pelicani or pes-carbonis. On peripheral whorl traces of a peripheral row of tubercles. On body whorl a peripheral row of tubercles which is also moniliform where it emerges from under the columellar callus, but is smooth on back of the shell; below this lira (on back of shell) about 9-10 lirae. 40 mm long."

Locus typicus: 26° 23' S., 14° 17' E. (-26.38333 , 14.28333), in 311 m on green mud. (off Hottentotspunt, Namibia)

Stratum typicum: recent

History and Synonymy

Aporrhais pesgallinae Barnard, 1963: 67, fig. 8

Specimens from private collections

Aporrhais pesgallinae Barnard, 1963; South of Walvis Bay, Namibia (25° S, 12° E.); trawled at 400-450 m; Coll. Ulrich Wieneke

Aporrhais pesgallinae Barnard, 1963; South of Walvis Bay, Namibia (24°-25° S, 13°-14° E.); 59 mm; trawled at 350-450 m; Coll. Philippe Simonet

Aporrhais pesgallinae Barnard, 1963; South of Walvis Bay, Namibia (25° S, 12° E.); 48 mm; trawled at 400-450 m; Coll. Philippe Simonet

References

Barnard, 1963
Giles E. and Gosliner T. (1983). Primary type specimens of marine Mollusca (excluding Cephalopoda) in the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum. 92(1): 1–52.
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