Hesperisternia harasewychi
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| Hesperisternia harasewychi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Pisaniidae |
| Genus: | Hesperisternia |
| Species: | H. harasewychi |
| Binomial name | |
| Hesperisternia harasewychi (Petuch, 1987) | |
Hesperisternia harasewychi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pisaniidae.[1]
Original description: "Shell thin, inflated with elevated spire; 8 strong varices per whorl; body whorl ornamented with 4 large spiral cords; numerous fine threads between large cords; 4 large knobs per varix, produced by intersections of varix with spiral cord; siphonal canal short, stumpy, ornamented with numerous spiral threads; interior of aperture with large, well-developed plications on inner side of lip; suture incised, indented, producing scalariform effect; shell color bright yellow-orange, orange red, or salmon-pink; paratype (ANSP) with anterior half of body whorl bright pinkish-orange, posterior half bright yellow, producing two-toned color pattern; aperture and columella white."[2]