Ampulla priamus, common name the spotted flask snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Description The length of the shell attains 80 mm.
The shell is rather thin-shelled, inflated and broadly spindle-shaped. It features a moderate spire. It has a bluntly rounded protoconch of 2.5 whorls and three subsequent convex whorls that are inflated with an indented suture. The shell has a smooth sculpture. Fine, rather distant, microscopic spiral furrows are present,. The aperture is large and wide and it can be angled at the top; its interior is medium brown. The outer lip is flared, unevenly curved, and simple. The inner lip is long, very oblique, almost straight, with a little bend at either end.The pink columella is smooth, and the parietal area is lightly callous and is pale yellow-pink with red-brown spots. An indistinct fasciole is present, along with a wide, barely indented siphonal canal.
Distribution This species lives in the West Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, only from Morocco to the Iberian peninsula, including the Canary Islands.
References
Bail, P.; Poppe, G.T. (2001). A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl. Peláez, J. L. (2022). Volutidae (Gastropoda, Neogastropoda) del Plioceno de Estepona (Málaga, España) con dos nuevas especies de Scaphella Swainson, 1832. Pliocénica. 6-7: 95-109.
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