Stomatella doriae

Stomatella doriae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

Stomatella doriae
Drawing with three views of a shell of Stomatella doriae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Stomatella
Species:
S. doriae
Binomial name
Stomatella doriae
Issel, 1869 [1]

Description

The height of the shell attains 2¾ mm, its diameter 4½ mm. The fragile, thin shell has an orbiculate-conoid shape and is much depressed. It is imperforate and is transversely minutely striate-costulate. Its color is whitish painted with irregular chestnut spots. The spire is obtuse and contains four convex whorls, separated by impressed sutures. The first whorl is narrow and slowly increasing. The body whorl is large, rather convex above, and rounded beneath. The large aperture is very oblique and subrotund. The acute peristome is interrupted. The columellar margin is a little reflexed at the insertion. The throat is a little pearly.[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea.

References
  1. Issel, Mal. Mare Rosso, p. 228, 1869
  2. Stomatella doriae Issel, 1869. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
  3. H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
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