Pseudobabylonella minima

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Pseudobabylonella minima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Cancellarioidea
Family:
Cancellariidae
Genus:
Pseudobabylonella
Species:
P. minima
Binomial name
Pseudobabylonella minima
(Reeve, 1856)
Synonyms [1]
  • Axelella minima (Reeve, 1856) (currently placed in genus Pseudobabylonella)
  • Cancellaria minimaReeve, 1856 (basionym)
  • Sveltella minima Nordsieck 1968
  • Narona minima Gubbioli & Nofroni 1985
  • Olssonella minima Bouchet & Warén 1985

Pseudobabylonella minima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails. [1]

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Description

The size of the small, fusiform shell varies between 5 mm and 9 mm. It has a white to pale brown color. The paucispiral protoconch has an elaborate sculpture that is different from the teleoconch. This teleoconch has up to five whorls with broad round, spiral ridges (between 2 and 11), crossed by 8 to 14 rounded, axial ribs. The sutures are deeply impressed. The aperture is elongately ovoid with only a faint siphonal canal. The thin outer lip has no inner lirae. The umbilicus is closed or sometimes with a narrow slit. [2]

Distribution

This species is found along Southwest Spain, Gibraltar, the Azores, the Canaries, Madeira (very common), Morocco, the Western Sahara and Mauritania.

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