Lirularia canaliculata
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| Lirularia canaliculata | |
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| Several views of a shell of Lirularia canaliculata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Subfamily: | Umboniinae |
| Genus: | Lirularia |
| Species: | S. canaliculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Lirularia canaliculata (E.A. Smith, 1871) | |
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Lirularia canaliculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae.[1]
Description
The height of tis small shell measures 3 mm. it is broadly umbilicated, pearly and beautifully prismatic. The spire is depressed-conical. It contains five whorls, the first two are smooth, the remainder spirally lirate, and ornamented beneath the channelled sutures with a series of white tubercles, here and there marked with brown. The body whorl is encircled by chestnut-dotted carinae. The base of the shell contains a purple-brown zone. The umbilicus is perspective, margined by a somewhat tubercular cord. The aperture is subcircular. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Equatorial Guinea.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lirularia canaliculata (E.A. Smith, 1871). Gofas, S. (2010). Lirularia canaliculata (E.A. Smith, 1871). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=549278 on 28 February 2011.
- ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Minolia canaliculata)
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