Atys chelidon

Atys chelidon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Cephalaspidea
Family:	Haminoeidae
Genus:	Atys
Species:	A. chelidon
Binomial name
Atys chelidon Melvill, 1912

Atys chelidon is a species of small tropical sea snail, a bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Haminoeidae, the haminoea bubble snails. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 12.5 mm, its diameter 6.5 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is oval, extremely delicate, whitish-gray, translucent, and spreading, slightly produced at both ends. It is spirally striated at the front and the rear alike, with fine grooved striae that are clear and sharply defined, about fourteen on each side. The central surface is very smooth. The apex bears a single fold. The outer lip is slightly expanded and extremely thin. The aperture is narrow and crescent-shaped, and the columella is obscurely single-folded. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Strait of Hormuz.

References

1. Atys chelidonMelvill, 19129 . 5 January 2026. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Melvill, J.C. (1912). "Descriptions of thirty-three new species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 10 (3): 253, 254. Retrieved 5 January 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp