Conradia doliaris

Conradia doliaris is a species of small sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conradiidae.[1]

Conradia doliaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Conradiidae
Genus: Conradia
Species:
C. doliaris
Binomial name
Conradia doliaris
A. Adams, 1863
Synonyms

Fossarus (Gottoina) doliaris A. Adams, 1863

Description

(Original description by Arthur Adams) The height of the shell attains 2.5 mm. The dirty white shell has a turbinate shape with 4½ whorls and a profound umbilicus. The very thin shell contains distant transverse ridges, and the interstices are neatly cancellated. The aperture is nearly circular, and the sutures are deeply channeled. The thin lip is arcuated.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

  • Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp.
  • To World Register of Marine Species
  • "Conradia doliaris". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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