Cleopatra ferruginea, (LEA & LEA, 1850)

Strong, Ellen E., 2011, More than a gut feeling: utility of midgut anatomy in phylogeny of the Cerithioidea (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162 (3), pp. 585-630 : 609

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00687.x

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039687CF-FFD8-AB7A-FF48-93C7FA09DB93

treatment provided by

Valdenar

scientific name

Cleopatra ferruginea
status

 

CLEOPATRA FERRUGINEA (LEA & LEA, 1850) View in CoL

Material examined

Africa: Kenya: Kinango, between Kinango and Shimba Hills ( USNM 882023).

Description

Marginal fold S-shaped ( Fig. 15B View Figure 15 ), terminating at posterior tip of sorting area; oesophageal aperture at tip of marginal fold recurved segment; sorting area rectangular, with broadly rounded posterior margin; left margin of sorting area with slight bulge; accessory marginal fold extending from oesophageal aperture, around posterior margin of sorting area, intersecting broadly curving fold posteriorly at left; small, rounded sorting area pad present at left posterior end of sorting area; anterior flap and crescentic pads lacking; glandular pad elongate, flaring posteriorly with broadly rounded posterior end; paired digestive gland ducts opening at left of glandular pad; crescentic ridge long, emerging from oesophageal aperture, curving around posterior end of glandular pad, fusing to side of pad slightly behind gastric shield above shallow caecum (extending roughly halfway to midline of pad); single, smooth elongate caecal fold and second more weakly developed anterior caecal fold present at right of glandular pad, behind caecum; rather large, rounded accessory pad present at anterior end of glandular pad; U-shaped fold present below style sac aperture; typhlosoles fusing short distance anteriorly from gastric chamber.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

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