Argalista glareosa

Argalista glareosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Colloniidae
Subfamily:	Colloniinae
Genus:	Argalista
Species:	A. glareosa
Binomial name
Argalista glareosa (A. Gould, 1861)
Synonyms
Collonista glareosa(A. Gould, 1861) superseded combination Leptothyra glareosa(A. Gould, 1861) (superseded combination) Monilea glareosa. Gould, 1861 (superseded combination)

Argalista glareosa is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae. ^[1]

Subspecies

Argalista glareosa glareosa(A. Gould, 1861)

Description

The diameter of the shell attains 5 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is small, solid, ovate-globose, and ash-colored, variegated with radiating, brownish flames. It has five swollen whorls. The apical whorls are folded and granular, while the remaining whorls are encircled by numerous lirae (spiral threads), of which three to four major ones are sometimes subdivided. The base is rounded, with a modest umbilicus, which is folded and notched at the margin. The aperture is circular. The outer lip is thickened and simple. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

1. Argalista glareosa (A. Gould, 1861) . 22 October 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Gould, A.A. (1861). "Description of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expediti". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 7: 17. Retrieved 22 October 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Poppe, G.T., Tagaro, S.P. & Huang, S.-I. (2025). The recent Colloniidae, with a study of the Colloniidae collected by various expeditions of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, volume II. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 90 pp.