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Luria (Tessellata) pelouaensis

Gastropoda - Cypraeidae

Taxonomy
Luria (Tessellata) pelouaensis was named by Dolin and Lozouet (2004). Its type specimen is MNHN-IM-2000-3694, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Le Peloua reef, Saucats Valley, Gironde, which is in a Burdigalian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Falun de Leognan Formation of France.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2004Luria (Tessellata) pelouaensis Dolin and Lozouet pp. 22 - 23 figs. Pl. 10 figs 3, 4a-4c

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
superfamilyCypraeoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyCypraeidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyLuriinaeSchilder 1832
genusLuria(Jousseaume 1884)
subgenusTessellata
speciespelouaensis

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Luria (Tessellata) pelouaensis Dolin and Lozouet 2004
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Diagnosis
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L. Dolin and P. Lozouet 2004La coquille, solide, de taille moyenne, est oviforme, a profil regulierement ampoule. La spire, tres legerement saillante, est masquee. Les marges sont legerement relevees. Le canal siphonal est profond, formant un pontet tronque orthogonalement, fortement rehausse par rapport a la sole ventrale, erroite et convexe. Louverture est assez large, peu sinueuse. Le pli terminal, courbe, plongeant, forme un T couche avec la lame interne, courte, a terminaison fortcmcnt spatulec. La fossula forme un cuilleron relativement peu developpe pour le genre; elle est lisse, comme l'aire columellaire, mais elle porte a son bard epaissi 7 denticules peu develop pes. La levre interne porte 19( + 1) denticules tuberculiformes, se develop pant imperceptiblement sur la sole ventrale a partir de l' angulation, arrondie plus qu' abattue. Le canal exhalant est profond, bien delimite, retrousse dorsalement. La levre externe est epaisse, d'une largeur egale ne s'acuminant qu'aux extremites; elle porte 24 denticules epais, distants, courts, ne s'allongeant guere que clans le quart anterieur declive de la levre externe.