Pseudominolia splendens

Pseudominolia splendens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae.[1]

Pseudominolia splendens
Original drawing with two views of a shell of Pseudominolia splendens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Pseudominolia
Species:
P. splendens
Binomial name
Pseudominolia splendens
(G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)
Synonyms[1]
  • Minolia splendens (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)
  • Monilia variegata Odhner, 1919
  • Monilia variegata Odhner, 1919
  • Solariella splendens G.B Sowerby III, 1897 (original combination)

Description

The height of the shell attains 11 mm. This shining shell with red spots has a depressed-orbicular shape and is smooth below. The gradate, conical spire has an acute apex. It contains 6½ whorls with spirally granulated lirae. The body whorl has a depressed rotund shape. On top it shows an angle, below it is rotund. The body whorl contains seven lirae, the upper ones granulated, the others plane. The shell has a wide and deep umbilicus.. It contains seven ridges above the periphery, the upper ridges being beaded. The base of the shell is convex. The aperture is slightly oblique and subquadrate. The oblique columella has a slight callus.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and off KwaZuluNatal, South Africa.

References
  1. Pseudominolia splendens (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 February 2012.
  2. G.B. Sowerby III (1897), Appendix to marine shells of South Africa : a catalogue of all the known species
  • Herbert D.G. (1992). Revision of the Umboniinae (Mollusca: Prosobranchia: Trochidae) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum 33(2):379–459
  • "Pseudominolia splendens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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