Architectonica laevigata

Architectonica laevigata
Shell of Architectonica laevigata (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	Architectonicidae
Genus:	Architectonica
Species:	A. laevigata
Binomial name
Architectonica laevigata (Lamarck, 1816)
Synonyms
Solarium laevigatumLamarck, 1816

Architectonica laevigata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Architectonicidae, which are known as the staircase shells or sundials. ^[1]

Description

The diameter of the shell attains 30 mm. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species can be found in tropical and warm-temperate regions in the Central and Eastern Indian Ocean, in the Red Sea, off the Philippines; also off Queensland, Australia.

References

1. Architectonica laevigata(Lamarck, 1816) . 9 November 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Pati, Premalata, and R. C. Panigrahy. "On some mollusca collections from different beaches of south Odisha coast of India." Records of the Zoological Survey of India (2013): 229-254.

• Bieler, R. (1993). Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg. NF. 30: 1-376.
• Steyn, D. G. & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore shells of southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
• Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises. [Contribution to the study of the fauna of Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Fauna of the French colonies.]. Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Paris.

External links

• Lamarck, J. B. P. A. de M. de (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23. Paris: Vve Agasse.