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Minolia caifassii | |
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Drawing with two views of a shell of Minolia caifassii | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Solariellidae |
Genus: | Minolia |
Species: | M. caifassii |
Binomial name | |
Minolia caifassii Carmagna, 1888 | |
Minolia caifassii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae. [1]
The height of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 5 mm. The umbilicated, very fragile shell has a conoidal shape. The 5½ whorls are angular and flat above. The first 3 whorls are smooth, the remainder minutely cingulate, granose, and obliquely striate. They are ornamented with chestnut-brown radiating spots and whitish. The body whorl is angular at its base, convex below, and ornamented with 7 minutely grained concentric lirae. The ample umbilicus is scalariform, cingulate, granose, and bounded by a white crenate riblet. [2]
This species occurs in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
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