Solariella cincta

Solariella cincta
Shell of Solariella cincta (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Solariellidae
Genus:	Solariella
Species:	S. cincta
Binomial name
Solariella cincta (Philippi, 1836)
Synonyms
Trochus cinctusPhilippi, 1836

Solariella cincta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae. ^[1]

Distribution

This species can be found in the Northern Atlantic and off the coasts of West Africa. In the past, during the Late Pliocene, it had a wider distribution and occurred as well in the Mediterranean as off the coast of present Spain and Portugal. ^[2]

References

1. Solariella cincta (Philippi, 1836) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 22 April 2010.
2. Carlos Marques da Silva, The genus Solariella (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda) from the Pliocene of Vale de Freixo, Portugal : Palaeobiogegographic and Palaeoclimatic Implications, Contr. Tert. Quatern. Geol., vol 37 (3-4), pp. 57-65, Leiden, December 2000

• Philippi R. A., 1836: Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1 ; Schropp, Berlin [Berolini] xiv + 267 p., pl. 1–12
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213

External links

• Locard, A. (1897-1898). Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882 et 1883. Mollusques testacés. Paris, Masson
• Williams S.T., Kano Y., Warén A. & Herbert D.G. (2020). Marrying molecules and morphology: first steps towards a reevaluation of solariellid genera (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) in the light of molecular phylogenetic studies. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 86(1): 1–26