Minolia punctata

Minolia punctata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.[3]

Minolia punctata
Drawing of a shell of Minolia punctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Minolia
Species:
M. punctata
Binomial name
Minolia punctata
Synonyms

Magarita punctata A. Adams [2]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 13 mm. The helicoid shell is widely umbilicated, fulvous, punctate with red. The 6½ whorls are convex and somewhat loosely rolled on themselves which causes the sutures to very deep. They are traversed by spiral granulose cinguli ornamented with red dots, and alternately larger and smaller. The interstices are beautifully clathrate with delicate oblique lamellae. The body whorl is at the peristome almost disunited from the penultimate whorl. The suture is canaliculate. The umbilicus is perspective, with concentric granulose cinguli. The interstices are closely clathrate.[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Western Pacific and off Japan.

References
  1. Adams, Arthur (1860). "Article: XLII.—On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3rd ser. v. 6: 336–337.
  2. Adams, Sows. Conch. Icon., f. 14.
  3. Bouchet, P. (2012). Minolia punctata A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547337 on 2012-12-03
  4. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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