Vellicolla muscaria (A. A. Gould, 1859)
- Location
- Red Beach, Okinawa Island (East coast), Okinawa, Japan
- Date
- 2007/03/05
- Length
- 7mm
- Depth
- 13.0m
- Water temperature
- 21.0℃
Description
A minute haminoeid reaching about 4 mm in shell length. Shell ovate-elliptical, thin, greenish, ornamented with transverse rows of dusky brown dots and sculpted with striae on both ends; vertex funnel-shaped and imperforate. Aperture narrow, anteriorly effuse; outer lip retrorsely produced and dentigerous; columella short and twisted. The petal-like marginal spots reported on the mantle of some Japanese photographic records are not consistently visible in overseas records, leaving the conspecificity of the various Indo-Pacific colour forms open to question.Distribution
Indo-Pacific. The type locality is the China Seas.Etymology
The specific epithet muscaria is the Latin feminine of muscarius, "of flies" (from musca, "fly"), apparently in reference to the rows of small dusky brown dots that suggest scattered flies.Remarks
Originally described as Atys muscaria in Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 138 (1859), among the shells of the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Subsequently transferred to Vellicolla.References
- Atys muscaria, Gould A.A. (1859). Descriptions of new species of shells brought home by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 7: 138-142, 161-166, 169-173.
- カバヅラブドウガイ（新称）, 中野理枝, 今川郁 & 今本淳. (2013). 南西諸島の後鰓類1. 頭楯亜目. ちりぼたん. 43(1-4): 1-22.
- カバヅラブドウガイ, 中野理枝. (2018). 日本のウミウシ. 文一総合出版.
- Vellicolla muscaria, Oskars T.R. & Malaquias M.A.E. (2019). A molecular phylogeny of the Indo-West Pacific species of Haloa sensu lato gastropods (Cephalaspidea: Haminoeidae): Tethyan vicariance, generic diversity, and ecological specialization. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 139: 106557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106557
- Oskars T.R., Too C.C., Rees D., Mikkelsen P.M., Willassen E. & Malaquias M.A.E. (2019). A molecular phylogeny of the gastropod family Haminoeidae sensu lato (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea): a generic revision. Invertebrate Systematics 33(3): 426-472.
- ミドリタマゴガイ, 小野篤司 & 加藤昌一. (2020). 新版 ウミウシ. 誠文堂新光社.
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