Granata maculata
| Granata maculata | |
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| A shell of Granata maculata | |
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| Ventral view of a shell of Granata maculata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Seguenzioidea |
| Family: | Chilodontidae |
| Genus: | Granata |
| Species: | G. maculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Granata maculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) [1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Granata maculata is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chilodontidae.[2]
Description
The small, oval shell is inflated. It has a rounded prominent spire containing 4 whorls. It is very delicately striate longitudinally and transversely. It is pale yellow, marbled with brown and reddish-brown. The columellar margin is flattened. The regularly oval aperture is nacreous and striate within. The operculum is very thin. [3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Vanikoro and the Torres Strait.
References
- ↑ Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. de 1'Astrolabe, Zoologie iii, p. 305, t. 66 bis, f. 13-16
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Granata maculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). Bouchet, P. (2010). Granata maculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547199 on 24 September 2012.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII (described as Stomatella maculata)
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