Ampulla priamus
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| Ampulla priamus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Genus: | Ampulla |
| Species: | A. priamus |
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| Ampulla priamus (Gmelin, 1791) | |
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Ampulla priamus, common name the spotted flask snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
The length of the shell attains 80 mm.
The shell is rather thin-shelled, inflated and broadly spindle-shaped. It features a moderate spire. It has a bluntly rounded protoconch of 2.5 whorls and three subsequent convex whorls that are inflated with an indented suture. The shell has a smooth sculpture. Fine, rather distant, microscopic spiral furrows are present,. The aperture is large and wide and it can be angled at the top; its interior is medium brown. The outer lip is flared, unevenly curved, and simple. The inner lip is long, very oblique, almost straight, with a little bend at either end.The pink columella is smooth, and the parietal area is lightly callous and is pale yellow-pink with red-brown spots. An indistinct fasciole is present, along with a wide, barely indented siphonal canal.
