Monilea lentiginosa

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Monilea lentiginosa
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Drawing with three views of a shell of Monilea lentiginosa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Monilea
Species:
M. lentiginosa
Binomial name
Monilea lentiginosa
(A. Adams, 1851) [1]
Synonyms
  • Monilea corrugataA. Adams, 1854
  • Monilea morti(Iredale, 1929)
  • Trochus lentiginosusFischer

Monilea lentiginosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. [2]

Contents

The Australian Faunal Directory considers Monilea lentiginosaAdams, 1853 to be a synonym of Monilea callifera (Lamarck, 1822)

Description

The size of the shell varies between 12 mm and 24 mm. The umbilicate, very solid shell has a conical shape. It is lusterless with a whitish color, unicolored or obscurely striped or maculate with brown or buff. The spire is conical with an acute apex. The sutures are impressed. The 6 to 7 whorls are convex, the last with a tendency to be flattened around the middle. The entire surface is covered with sharp close uneven spiral riblets with deeply incised interstices, and very fine, close, longitudinal growth lamellae, forming compressed beads on the lirae, and generally lamellae in the interstices. The oblique aperture is rounded-quadrangular, with 10 or 11 plicae within, which attain the edge of the lip. The short columella is toothed below, concave and somewhat expanded above. The umbilicus contains within a smooth, not very prominent, funicle. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Central Indo-West Pacific and Australia ( Queensland - New South Wales)

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References

  1. ↑ A. Adams, Proceedings of the Zoological Society 1851, p. 188
  2. ↑ Marshall, B. (2014). Monilea lentiginosa (A. Adams, 1851). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=718867 on 13 July 2014
  3. ↑ H. Pilsbry (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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