Dactylastele poupineli

Dactylastele poupineli
	Shell of Dactylastele poupineli
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Family:	Calliostomatidae
Genus:	Dactylastele
Species:	D. poupineli
Binomial name
	Dactylastele poupineli; (Montrouzier in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1875)
Synonyms
	Calliostoma poupineli Thiele, 1930; Trochus (Zizyphinus) poupineli Montrouzier in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1875; Fautor poupineli (Montrouzier, 1875); Trochus poupineli Montrouzier in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1875;

Dactylastele poupineli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 8 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is cone-shaped with mud-like or yellowish coloration, with a pointed apex. It is decorated all over with spiral cords that are close together and cut somewhat obliquely and granularly. Two of the cords above the margin are stronger. The shell is glossy and somewhat crystalline and fleshy-white, marked with yellowish dots that are somewhat spaced out and arranged on the cord above the suture.

It has 8 whorls, separated by an impressed suture. The upper part of the whorls is somewhat concave, while the lower part is slightly swollen and very bluntly keeled, with the lower face being flatly convex.

The aperture is oblique and somewhat rhomboid-shaped. The throat is glossy and pearly, and furrowed. The right margin is doubled, with the outer lip being sharp and crenulated. The columellar lip is somewhat vertical, thickened, and tuberculate (covered with small bumps).^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines, Japan, Fiji ,New Caledonia and Australia (Queensland)

References

^ ^a ^b Dactylastele poupineli (Montrouzier in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1875). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 August 2013.
^ Souverbie [S.-M.] & Montrouzier [X.] (1875). "Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'archipel calédonien". Journal de Conchyliologie. 23 (1): 40. Retrieved 30 August 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Herbert D.G. (1996) A critical review of the trochoidean types in the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Bordeaux (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, ser. 4, 18 (A, 3–4): 409–445

External links

Marshall, B.A., 1995. Calliostomatidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochoidea) from New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and the northern Lord Howe Rise. Résultats des Campagnes Musorstom 14 (Bouchet, P., ed.). Mémoires de la Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle 167: 381–458

[WoRMS-1] Dactylastele poupineli (Montrouzier in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1875). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 August 2013.

[2] Souverbie [S.-M.] & Montrouzier [X.] (1875). "Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'archipel calédonien". Journal de Conchyliologie. 23 (1): 40. Retrieved 30 August 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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