Search:
Recent Changes -

edit SideBar

Species / Peruchilus

Stromboidea


Original Description of the genus Peruchilus by Olsson, 1931, p. 185 (88):

  • "Shell broadly conic with rapid enlarging, straight-sided or keeled whorls; spire-whorls angled or carinated about the middle or just below; body-whorl with a strong, central keel or ridge bordered anteriorly by a peripheral or basal keel so that on internal molds or weathered specimens, this whorl appears broadly biangulated; sutures linear, straight; base flattened, impressed or concave; anterior canal very short; outer lip wing-like adherent only to the lower quarter or half of the penultimate whorl with a long, pointed, posterior extremity and rounded anterior side; a groove or sinus follows along the posterior side of the expanded lip being the continuation of the medial keel."

Peruchilus species are


Edit - History - Print - Recent Changes - Search

- This page is owned by Ulrich Wieneke
Copyright Privacy Policy Impressum
- It was last modified on August 17, 2012, at 03:26 PM-