Amaea brunneopicta
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| Amaea brunneopicta | |
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| Shell of Amaea brunneopicta (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Epitoniidae |
| Genus: | Amaea |
| Species: | A. brunneopicta |
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| Amaea brunneopicta (Dall, 1908) | |
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Amaea brunneopicta is a species of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae.[1]
The shell grows to a length of 37 mm, its maximum diameter is 10 mm.
(Original description) The shell is slender and acute. It is pale brown with a broad peripheral band and a basal disk of darker brown. It consists of approximately eleven whorls, excluding the missing protoconch. Its sculpture mirrors that of Amaea ferminiana, with three primary and about six secondary spirals between the sutures, accompanied by fine spiral striae. The axial lamellae are small, sharp, and regularly spaced, with around thirty-six on the penultimate whorl, appearing as delicate whitish lines on the brown surface. The basal disk is distinctly threaded with sharp spirals and is slightly elevated.[2]
