Mitromorpha crassilirata

Mitromorpha crassilirata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.[1]

Mitromorpha crassilirata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mitromorphidae
Genus: Mitromorpha
Species:
M. crassilirata
Binomial name
Mitromorpha crassilirata
(Verco, 1909)
Synonyms[1]
  • Aesopus pallidulus (Hedley, 1906)
  • Mitromorpha paucilirata var. crassilirata Verco, 1909 (original combination)
  • Mitromorpha (Mitrolumna) crassilirata (Verco, 1909)

Description

The length of the shell attains 4.5 mm, its diameter 1.7 mm.

(Original description) The shell is slightly longer than Mitromorpha paucilirata and more solid, with the same number of spirals, but these are much stouter, the infrasutural cord being specially round and conspicuous.[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia.

References

  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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