Limicolaria martensiana

This species was originally discovered and described by the British malacologist Edgar Albert Smith in 1880. Smith's original text (the type description) reads as follows:

Shell rimate, rather solid, oblong, turreted, reddish towards the apex, elsewhere dark purple-red or almost black, variegated with oblique, more or less zigzag, opaque creamed-coloured stripes, some of which extend from suture to suture, others only a short distance from the top of the whorls. The latter are 7½ in number, scarcely convex or almost flat, and very feebly constricted beneath the suture. The upper ones are finely granosely decussated, the last and the penultimate being smooth and merely marked with the oblique incremental strise. All exhibit a fine plication or puckering beneath the suture, beneath which an impressed line is sometimes observable upon the last and preceding volutions. Aperture bluish within, displaying more or less of the external striping, vertical, equalling about two fifths of the shell's length. Columella suberect, bluish and dark violet, scarcely forming any angulation at the base with the lower margin of the peritreme. Length 36 millims., diam. 17; aperture 14½ long, 8 wide. This handsome shell approximates very closely to A. heuglini of Martens in form, but has certain differences in colour and sculpture, which, however, may prove to be only varietal. A. …

This species occurs in Africa, in the following countries:

Tanzania Kenya Uganda