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Rimella rokeyae
Taxonomy
Rimella rokeyae was named by Banerjee and Halder (2024). Its type specimen is PG/CG/St1, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2024 | Rimella rokeyae Banerjee and Halder pp. 31, 32 figs. 9F-K |
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†Rimella rokeyae Banerjee and Halder 2024
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| S. Banerjee and K. Halder 2024 | Medium-sized, slender fusiform shell; protoconch
smooth, composed of 3 slightly convex whorls; long spire with convex whorls, separated by impressed sutures; whorls ornamented with straight or slightly concave forward axial ribs for which the strength, concavity and spacing increase in later ontogeny, varices present; convex last whorl with similar axial ribs, they disappear at base; base rounded, ornamented with spiral ridges and grooves; narrow elliptical aperture; open and grooved posterior canal extends along the spire, it terminates after crossing the apex; outer lip extended along the spire as margin of canal, finely plicated; inner lip also extended by the side of the canal, prominently calloused; columellar lip also calloused with fine plications; growth lines slightly concave forward on whorl sides, bend back at base. |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 | |||||