Epitonium (Parviscala) pallidizonatum (Masahito, Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971)

Huang, Chih-Wei & Lee, Yen-Chen, 2016, Checklist of the family Epitoniidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Taiwan with description of a new species and some new records, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 5653-5653 : 5653

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scientific name

Epitonium (Parviscala) pallidizonatum (Masahito, Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971)
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Epitonium (Parviscala) pallidizonatum (Masahito, Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971) View in CoL

Description

White, small, elongated, costae of approximately 23 in number at the last whorl, with sharply spine at the shoulder, clearly spiral cords between costae, without umbilicus (Fig. 1c). Shell height 22.2mm.

Distribution

Occurs in the Pacific coast off Sagami Bay to Kii Peninsula at 100m deep. In Taiwan it was dredged at about 500m depth of NE Taiwan waters. This species is a new record from the Taiwan waters.

Records

Cinctiscala pallidizonatum Masahito, Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda et al. 1971: pl. 63, figs 21.

Epitonium (Parviscala) pallidizonatum Weil et al. 1999: fig. 384; Okutani 2000: pl. 167, fig. 89; Nakayama 2003: pl. 13, figs 22-24.