Mumiola spirata

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Mumiola spirata
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Drawing of a shell of Mumiola spirata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Mumiola
Species:
M. spirata
Binomial name
Mumiola spirata
(A. Adams, 1853)
Synonyms
  • Chrysallida (Mumiola) spirata (Adams, 1853)
  • Monoptygma spirata Adams, 1853 (basionym)

Mumiola spirata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. [1]

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Description

The white shell is covered under a yellowish or brownish epidermis. Its length measures 7 mm. It is longitudinally plicate and transversely grooved. The sutures are channeled. The teleoconch contains eight gradate whorls. The columella has an oblique fold. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines and Japan.

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References

  1. Rosenberg, G. (2011). Mumiola spirata (A. Adams, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588313 on 2011-11-29
  2. G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 315; 1889