Attiliosa nodulosa


Attiliosa nodulosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Description

The length of the holotype attains 31.5 mm, its diameter 19 mm.
The shell is ovate-fusiform and umbilicate. It is whitish and wax-colored, nearly smooth, and marked by faint transverse grooves and longitudinal knot-like folds. The spire is pyramidal and is encircled at the sutures by a row of small nodules.
The body whorl is obtusely angled in the middle. The aperture is oval, and the columella is equipped with faint folds toward the front. The outer lip is strongly lirate on the inside, with the front margin being angled. The siphonal canal is short and recurved.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mexico, Panama and Ecuador.