Species

Entobia megastoma (Fischer, 1868)

Taxon description

Bromley & D'Alessandro, 1984

Diagnosis: Non-camerate entobian, organized in an irregular boxwork system becoming more or less complexly intermeshed in the mature stages. The galleries are subcylindrical, frequently bifurcated, swollen at nodal points where, usually, several galleries conjoin. Apertures large and numerous, circular or oval in shape, rarely fused, disposed irregularly. Phase A reduced; phases B-D well developed.

Synonymy list
1866     Cliona megastoma nomen nudum — Fischer , pp. 198
1868     Cliona megastoma — Fisher , pp. 165, fig. 24:2
1932     Cliona cretacica — Fenton & Fenton
1984     Entobia megastoma (Fischer, 1868) — Bromley & D'Alessandro , pp. 250, fig. 23:3; 24:2, 3; 26:1; 27:2
1991     Entobia megastoma (Fischer) — Feige & Fürsich , pp. 93
1991     Entobia megastoma Bromley & D'Alessandro — Radtke , pp. 48-49, fig. 1:3
1992     Entobia megastoma (Fischer, 1868) — Mikulaš , pp. 304, fig. 7:4; 8:2
2004     Entobia megastoma (Fischer, 1868) — Blissett & Pickerill , pp. 175, fig. 5/3
Selection of related publications
Feige, A., Fürsich, F. T. 1991. Taphonomy of the Recent molluscs of Bahia la Choya (Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico). Zitteliana 18, 89-133.