Acteonidae, Bullinidae and Ringiculidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Philippines
Author
Helwerda, Renate A.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3990
2
197
220
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3990.2.2
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1175-5326
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Genus
Microglyphis
Dall, 1902
Type
species.
Actaeon curtulus
Dall, 1889
(by original designation); Recent, off Magellan Strait.
Remarks.
Shells of this genus are similar to shells of the genus
Ringicula
, except that they do not develop a thickly callused aperture. This makes them difficult to distinguish from juvenile
Ringicula
shells, but they exhibit determinate growth characters subtly, such as a thin callus and a subtle change in coiling direction in the aperture. All adult shells of a
Microglyphis
species typically reach the same size as well.
Burn & Thompson (1998)
mention that
Microglyphis
shells have only one columellar fold, but, while this is the case in
M. japonica
(
Habe, 1952
)
, there are also species with two columellar folds, such as
M. mazatlantica
(
Dall, 1908
)
and
M. estuarina
(
Dall, 1908
)
.