Clanculus depictus

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Clanculus depictus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Clanculus
Species:
C. depictus
Binomial name
Clanculus depictus
A. Adams, 1854

Clanculus depictus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. [1]

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Description

The pseudo-umbilicate shell has a conoid shape. It is white with green radial bands. It can also be yellow or gray with irregular black stripes running down the shell. It is decorated with unequal subgranose cinguli (spiral ornamentations). The whorls are plane, but the penultimate whorl is angulate. The margin of the umbilicus is simple. The top of the columella is uniplicate and below it has three small tubercles. [2] [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mumbai.

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