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Arene guttata McLean, 1970
Beaded Turban
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usual size : Height 4 to 7.5 mm (0.15 to 0.3 inch), diameter 4.5 to 8 mm (0.17 to 0.32 inch)
Description
A small snail, rounded in outline, white spotted with pink, with even beading on spiral cords, especially prominent on the body whorl, and a deeply channeled suture.
Habitat & range
Intertidal and subtidal, down to about 275 m, on rocks. Cocos Island, Costa Rica; Galápagos Islands ( type locality ).
Original description (from McLEAN, 1970a : 310) :
“ Shell small for the genus, solid, umbilicate, turbinate, suture deeply channeled; nuclear whorls 1 1/2, smooth, rounded, the nuclear tip not raised; postnuclear whorls 3 1/2. Spiral sculpture on the early whorls consisting of 3 carinations that gradually take shape on emerging from the undelimited nuclear whorls. On the body whorl the peripheral carination projects slightly; this is the 3rd of the early spiral cords, above are 2 strongly beaded cords, between which arises a less prominent beaded cord, developed only on the final whorl; below the peripheral cord another strong cord projects almost as far. The suture is laid above this cord until the 3rd whorl, at which point the suture exposes it; the base of the cord is not exposed by the suture except at the upper edge of the mature lip. Base with 6 prominent beaded cords, 2 of which enter the umbilicus. Axial sculpture of fine lamellae over entire surface, beading on the spiral cords produced by the thickening and overlapping of 5 to 8 layers of lamellae in the direction of growth. Aperture circular, nacreous within, a trace of denticles within the outer lip, when seen in basal view. Color whitish, with random dotting of pink on the spiral cords. Operculum multispiral, concave, of about 10 whorls, beaded in a radiating pattern. Height, 4.5 mm, diameter, 5.0 mm.”
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Bibliography relevant to occurrence in Galápagos
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Mc LEAN, 1970a ( original description; Galápagos = type locality ); Mc LEAN in KEEN, 1971; FINET, 1985; FINET, 1991; KAISER, 1993; FINET, 1994b; FINET, 1995a; KAISER, 1997; HICKMAN & FINET, 1999.
Material from Galápagos in museums or other collections
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| AMNH | 154685 ( paratypes ), 117942, 180629, 180800. |
| LACM | 1275 ( holotype), 1276 ( paratypes ), 145166, 34-263.2, 34-264.3 ( previously |
| misidentified as Arene ferruginosa ), 34-265.8, 34-270.2, 34-281.4, 34-294.1, 72-196.9. | |
| CDRS | 318. |
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