“Prosipho tuberculatus, n. sp. Pl. I, fig. 11.
Shell ovately fusiform, whitish; whorls 4½, the first one and a half large, convex, smooth, forming a mammillated apex, the two following convex, with three strong spiral liræ, the last with five similar liræ, with well-marked (about eighteen) acute tubercles upon them, and also upon those of the spire; about eight finer smooth liræ encircle the lower part of the last whorl; longitudinal plicæ, corresponding to the tubercles, not strongly developed in the interstices; lines of increment very fine, closely packed; aperture pyriform, half the length of the shell; columella gently arcuate above, a little oblique below; canal rather broad, recurved.
Length, 5 mm.; diameter, 2.75.
Station 316: 190-250 fathoms.
Allied to P. cancellatus, but separable on account of having three instead of two liræ on the spire, and, like those on the body-whorl, they are coarser also and closer together.”
(Smith, 1915: 71)
Prosipho tuberculatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]
Prosipho tuberculatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
