Hemilienardia minor

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Hemilienardia minor
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Hemilienardia
Species:
H. minor
Binomial name
Hemilienardia minor
(G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1875)
Synonyms

Clathurella apiculata minorG. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1875 (original combination)

Contents

Hemilienardia minor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. [1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 4½ mm, its diameter 1¾ mm.

(Original description) it can only be distinguished from Hemilienardia apiculata (Montrouzier in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1864) which has not yet been found at the Andamans, by its smaller size The row of opaque, white spots on the back of the body whorl are very characteristic. It is nearest allied to Hemilienardia malleti (Récluz, 1852) which also lives at the Andamans and under precisely similar conditions. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Andaman Islands

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References

  1. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Hemilienardia contortula (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1875). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=980546 on 2019-06-30
  2. Nevill G. & Nevill H. (1875) Descriptions of new marine Mollusca from the Indian Ocean. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 44(2): 83–104, pls. 7–8