Plastiscala morchi (Angas 1871)

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

Plastiscala morchi (Angas 1871)

Description

White, acuminate and elongated, with rough ribs on the first several whorls, surface sculptured with rough spiral cords which pass through the ribs, aperture subcircular, umbilicus closed (Fig. 1f). Shell height 10-50mm.

Distribution

This species ranges from New South Wales, Australia to Amami O-shima, Ryukyu, Japan. In Taiwan, it is trawled at the depth of 100 to 200m of northeastern Taiwan waters. This species is a new record from the Taiwan waters.

Records

Scala (Cirsotrema) morchi Angas 1871: pl. 1, fig. 7.

Cirsotrema morchi Kaicher 1981: No. 3106, 3046 (form bentha Iredale), 3130 (form profundior Iredale).

Plastiscala morchi Iredale 1936: fig. 21; Okutani 2000: pl. 160, fig. 16; Nakayama 2003: pl. 3, fig. 8.

Plastiscala morchi bentha Iredale 1936: fig. 22.

Plastiscala morchi profundior Iredale 1936: fig. 23.