“Euthrenopsis bountyensis n. sp. Fig. 58.
Shell small, solid, strongly axially and spirally sculptured. Whorls six including typical protoconch as described above of slightly more than two whorls. Outlines strongly and evenly convex. Body-whorl narrow, evenly convex above, rapidly contracting over base. Spire a trifle higher than height of aperture plus canal. Post-nuclear whorls sculptured with very strong, broad, rounded, axial costae, about ten per whorl. The whole surface traversed by broad, heavy spiral cords, surmounting the axials and with linear interspaces. There are five of these cords on the spire-whorls and eleven on body-whorl, the lower ones with wider interspaces. Suture impressed, undulating. Aperture incomplete in available specimens. No trace of parietal tubercle. Colour dull white.
Height 9 mm., diameter 3.75 mm.
Holotype and three juvenile paratypes in collection of Dr. H. J. Finlay, Dunedin.
Habitat.—Off Bounty Islands in 50 fathoms.”
(Powell, 1929: 90)
Euthrenopsis bountyensis is a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae.[1] It was first described by Baden Powell in 1929. It is endemic to the waters of New Zealand.
Euthrenopsis bountyensis has a shell with six whorls, with strong and even convex outlines.[2] The species measures 9mm by 4mm.[3]
The species is Endemic to New Zealand.[1] The holotype and juvenile paratypes were collected from the Bounty Islands.[4][2] A similar specimen was collected from the waters of the Antipodes Islands in 1967.[5]
Euthrenopsis bountyensis is a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae. It was first described by Baden Powell in 1929. It is endemic to the waters of New Zealand.
