Pseudominolia musiva

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Pseudominolia musiva
Isanda holdsworthana 001.jpg
Drawing of a shell of Pseudominolia musiva
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Pseudominolia
Species:
P. musiva
Binomial name
Pseudominolia musiva
H. Nevill & G. Nevill, 1871
Synonyms [1]
  • Gibbula holdsworthanaG. & H. Nevill, 1871
  • Isanda holdsworthana(G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1871)
  • Minolia charmosyneMelvill, 1918
  • Minolia holdsworthana(H. Nevill & G. Nevill, 1871)

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

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Description

The height of the shell varies between 4 mm and 4½ mm, its diameter between 3½ and 4 mm. The small, thin shell is narrowly but deeply perforate. It has a conical-turreted shape. It is lusterless, whitish, mottled with greenish-brown above. Its base is densely marked with dark brownish or greenish. The spire is elevated with an acute, yellowish apex. The sutures are profound. The shell contains five whorls. The median portion is encircled by three prominent keels, the upper two visible on the spire. The oblique striae of increment are scarcely visible. The base of the shell contains a few coarse but not deep spiral sulci, carinated around the funnel-shaped umbilicus. The aperture is subcircular, iridescent within. The outer lip is fragile. The thin columella is concave. The umbilicus contains several obscure spiral sulci inside. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, and off the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Singapore.

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References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2014). Pseudominolia musiva (Gould, 1861). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547297 on 2014-07-09
  2. ↑ H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Minolia holdsworthana)
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