Mioawateria watsoni

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Mioawateria watsoni
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Original image of a shell of Mioawateria watsoni
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Mioawateria
Species:
M. watsoni
Binomial name
Mioawateria watsoni
(Dautzenberg, 1889)
Synonyms [1]
  • Clathurella watsoniDautzenberg, 1889
  • Gymnobela watsoni(Dautzenberg, 1889)
  • Magnella watsoni(Dautzenberg, 1889)

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

Sea snail common name for snails that normally live in saltwater

Sea snail is a common name for slow moving marine gastropod molluscs usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the absence of a visible shell.

Family is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy; it is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as being the "walnut family".

Raphitomidae family of small to medium-sized sea snails

Raphitomidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.

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Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm.

The rather strong shell has a turreted shape and is composed of 8 convex whorls. The two first whorls are punctuated, the two subsequent whorls are covered with fine and regular cross-linking. The last whorls are strongly reticulated by high, longitudinal ribs, arched, twenty in number on the body whorl, and regular cords, fairly prominent, more spaced at the top of the whorls where they from, on the crest of the coasts, a series of tubercles. The aperture is oblong, occupying just over half of the total height of the shell. It is angular at the top and ends at the base in a short, open siphonal canal. The columella is faintly arched. The outer lip is subangular on its upper part and then arcuate. The interior of the outer lip is denticulate. The color of the shell is white with the top of the spire tinted orange-yellow. [2]

Whorl (mollusc)

A whorl is a single, complete 360° revolution or turn in the spiral growth of a mollusc shell. A spiral configuration of the shell is found in of numerous gastropods, but it is also found in shelled cephalopods including Nautilus, Spirula and the large extinct subclass of cephalopods known as the ammonites.

Body whorl

The body whorl is part of the morphology of the shell in those gastropod mollusks that possess a coiled shell. The term is also sometimes used in a similar way to describe the shell of a cephalopod mollusk.

Aperture (mollusc) The main opening of the shell, where the head-foot part of the body of the animal emerges

The aperture is an opening in certain kinds of mollusc shells: it is the main opening of the shell, where the head-foot part of the body of the animal emerges for locomotion, feeding, etc.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mauritania and the Azores.

Mauritania Islamic republic in Northwest Africa

Mauritania (;, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in Northwest Africa. It is the eleventh largest sovereign state in Africa and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest.

Azores Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean

The Azores, officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores, is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal. It is an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the North Atlantic Ocean about 1,360 km (850 mi) west of continental Portugal, about 1,643 km (1,021 mi) west of Lisbon, in continental Portugal, about 1,507 km (936 mi) northwest of Morocco, and about 1,925 km (1,196 mi) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.

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