| Gibbula cicer | |
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| Gibbula cicer | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Subfamily: | Trochinae |
| Genus: | Gibbula |
| Species: | G. cicer |
| Binomial name | |
| Gibbula cicer (Menke, 1844) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Trochus cicer Menke, 1844 |
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Gibbula cicer is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]
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The size of an adult shell varies between 5 mm and 8 mm. The solid, globose-conical shell is perforate or subperforate. It is longitudinally crossed by reddish or dark brown stripes, often broken into tessellations on the base. There are five, convex whorls. The first two are yellow or rosy and smooth. The rest are coarsely spirally lirate with 6 or 7 lirae on the penultimate whorl. The lirae are separated by deep interstices which sometimes intersect the colored stripes. The spire is short. The body whorl is rounded. The base of the shell is convex and finely marked with about eight narrow lirae with its base frequently suffused with pink. The arcuate columella is straightened in the middle and oblique and very subdentate below. The white or yellowish umbilical area is small. [2]
This marine species occurs along Namibia and North Transkei (South Africa)