Pseudominolia climacota

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Pseudominolia climacota
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Pseudominolia
Species:
P. climacota
Binomial name
Pseudominolia climacota
(Melvill, 1897)
Synonyms

Minolia climacotaMelvill, 1897

Pseudominolia climacota is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. [1] [2]

Contents

The epithet "climacota" is derived from the Greek word for "terraced".

Description

The height of the shell attains 14 mm, its diameter also 14 mm. The solid shell has a gradate conical shape. It is subdepressed and narrowly umbilicate,. Its color is white-ochraceous or white-cinereous. The shell contains seven whorls with much impressed sutures. The whorls are irregularly spirally deeply lirate. The lirae are conspicuously sulculose with triangular blotches of black-brown painting. The smooth base is plane but triangular at the periphery. Below the periphery it is ornated with brown to ashy gray flames. The aperture is angulated round with a simple lip. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Iran.

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References

  1. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2012). Pseudominolia climacota (Melvill, 1897). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=701817 on 2012-11-23
  2. ↑ Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
  3. ↑ Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society v.41 (1896-1897) (described as Minolia climacota)
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