Shell-bearing Mollusca (Bivalvia and Gastropoda) from submarine caves in Hong Kong
Author
Lam, Katherine
Author
Morton, Brian
Author
Leung, K. F.
text
Journal of Natural History
2008
2008-03-31
42
9 - 12
927
952
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930701862674
journal article
10.1080/00222930701862674
1464-5262
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Vermetus renisectus
(
Carpenter, 1857
)
Description
Operculum circular, concave with a spiral, flat lamina of 1.5 whorls and less than the apertural diameter of the shell. Shell attached to substratum by loose, irregular basal whorls and give rise to an off-substrata apertural opening.
Type
locality
‘‘in Oceano?Indico’’.
Distribution
Indo Pacific. Attached to current-scoured hard substrata. Eastern
Hong Kong
(
Hughes 1985
).