Margarites albolineatus

Margarites albolineatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Margaritidae, the turban snails.[1][2][3]

Margarites albolineatus
Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Margarites albolineatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Margarites
Species:
M. albolineatus
Binomial name
Margarites albolineatus
(E. A. Smith, 1899)
Synonyms

Valvatella albolineata E. A. Smith, 1899

Description

The height of the shell attains 4.5 mm, its diameter 8 mm. The imperforate shell has a depressed, suborbicular shape. The short spire consists of 5 convex whorls, that increase rapidly in size. It contains many white, filiform spiral threads. There is a large, round aperture, that is iridescent inside.[4]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the coast of the Bering Sea.

References

  1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Margarites albolineatus (E. A. Smith, 1899). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528722 on 2012-09-01
  2. Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26
  3. Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls.
  4. Edgar A. Smith, On some mollusca from Bering Sea with descriptions of two new species of Trochidae; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London vol. 3 (1898-1899)
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