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
1740ec81-c55e-44ce-9a6d-cd62acd5d898
1175-5326
242947
BDF1BC11-4848-4858-99DC-0336A5FBEE2B
Ringicula
spec 4
(
Figure 34
)
Material.
Roxas (3)
RGM
961.850.
Characterization.
Shell small, high-spired; H
2.75 mm
,
W
1.52
mm; protoconch slightly elevated, 1.2 whorl, DP
0.23 mm
; nucleus small, DN
0.12 mm
; teleoconch with distinct subsutural ridge and groove; additional sculpture of 12 distinct spiral grooves on the body whorl; aperture damaged in all specimens; parietal callus with lamella; columella with two folds.
Remarks.
These specimens are difficult to assign to a species, because of their broken apertures. Their spires are more elevated than that of any of the other
Ringicula
species present in the studied material. They might belong to
Ringicula doliaris
Gould, 1860
, because some specimens attributed to this species have a similarly elevated spire, with similar sculpture, but these specimens attain a larger size of at least
4 mm
.