Minolia caifassii

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Minolia caifassii
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Drawing with two views of a shell of Minolia caifassii
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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]

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Description

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]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

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