Lirularia succincta

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Lirularia succincta
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Drawing of a shell of Lirularia succincta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Lirularia
Species:
L. succincta
Binomial name
Lirularia succincta
(Carpenter, 1864)
Synonyms

Gibbula succinctaCarpenter, 1864

Lirularia succincta, common name the tucked lirularia, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. [1] [2]

Contents

This species was originally described by Carpenter as Lirularia parcipicta . [3]

Description

The height of the shell varies between 3 mm and 7 mm. This small, but medium-sized for genus, species is somewhat less high than wide. The shell can take different colors, from brown to dark gray, often interrupted by white or dark spots. The convex whorls shows numerous, low, flattened, spiral cords. The sutures are slightly impressed. There is a broad channel on the base of the shell. The subquadrate aperture is somewhat oblique with its outer lip somewhat expanded and marked with darker spots. The columella is slightly arcuated. The broad umbilicus is deep and funnel-shaped. [4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean on rocks abundantly in the intertidal zone from the Gulf of Alaska to northern Baja California, Mexico

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References

  1. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Lirularia succincta (Carpenter, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528721 on 2012-11-23
  2. ↑ Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26
  3. ↑ Robert R. Talmadge, Notes on the Mollusca, Prince William Sound, Alaska: II; The Veliger v 9 (1966-1967), p. 237
  4. ↑ Carpenter, Diagnoses of new forms of Mollusks from the Vancouver district; The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3rd ser. v. 14 (1864) (described as Gibbula succincta)
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