Andromeda (constellation) daughter to Cetus. She was chained to a rock by the sea but was saved by the hero Perseus, who in one version of the story used the head of Medusa to turn the monster into stone; in another version, by the Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses, Perseus slew the monster with his diamond sword. Perseus and Andromeda then married; the myth recounts that the couple had nine children together – seven sons and two daughters – and founded Mycenae and its Persideae dynasty. After Andromeda's death Athena placed her in the sky as a constellation, to honor her.
Hindsiclava andromeda do not become nodulous. The anal fasciole is narrow, concave, somewhat removed from the suture, the sulcus shallow. In the type specimen the outer lip is thin and sharp. The inner lip is erased, but if the specimen is immature the outer lip would probably be thickened with a subsutural callus in the adult. The white columella is straight, and attenuated in front. The siphonal canal is distinct and not recurved. This marine species occurs from to Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico to Panama Hindsiclava andromeda Hindsiclava andromeda is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the