''Bankivia fasciata'', common name the banded kelp shell, is a
species
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of
sea snail, a
marine
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gastropod mollusk
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in the
family
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Trochidae
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, the top snails.
[Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Bankivia fasciata'' (Menke, 1830). Accessed through: ]World Register of Marine Species
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Description
The length of the shell varies between 15 mm and 25 mm. The thin, imperforate, elongated shell has a turreted shape. This is a variable species in size and coloration. It is polished and shining, white, creamy or pink, with spiral bands of pink, purplish-red or purplish-brown, or narrow oblique zigzag stripes of pinkish-brown, usually with a narrow subsutural fascia of dark or pinkish. The
spire
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is elevated and slender. The dark
apex
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is a little blunt. The about 9
whorl
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s are, very slightly convex, and a trifle impressed below the
sutures. The surface (under a lens) is very densely, finely spirally striate. The
body whorl is rounded. The base of the shell shows a few concentric, separated, impressed lines. The
aperture
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is ovate. The thin outer
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is acute. The sinuous
columella
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is arcuate above and narrowly reflexed, obliquely truncate below.
H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
(described as ''Cantharidus fasciatus'')
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Aqaba
The Gulf of Aqaba ( ar, خَلِيجُ ٱلْعَقَبَةِ, Khalīj al-ʿAqabah) or Gulf of Eilat ( he, מפרץ אילת, Mifrátz Eilát) is a large gulf at the northern tip of the Red Sea, east of the Sinai Peninsula and west of the Arabi ...
, off Mozambique
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and off New South Wales
)
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, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, es ...
to South Australia
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, and off Tasmania
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References
* Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H., 1902. ''Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria. Part V''. Proc. R. Soc. Vict.n.s., 14(2):85-138
* Shirley, J., 1911. ''Additions to the Marine Mollusca of Queensland''. Proc. R. Soc. Qld, XXIII(1):96-96
* Cotton, B.C. (1959). ''South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda''. Adelaide : Govt. Printer.
* Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F., 1962 1/Dec/1962 ''A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales''. Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0
* Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J., 1962. ''Marine Mollusca of Victoria''. Melbourne Univ. Press, Melbourne. 475
* Barash, A., Danin, Z. & Yaron, I. (1980). ''Bankivia fasciata (Menke, 1830) in the Gulf of Aquaba'' . Bolletino Malacologico. 16 (1-2)
* Wilson, B., 1993. ''Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods''. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA
External links
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To World Register of Marine Species
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fasciata
Gastropods described in 1830