Stomatella elegans

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Stomatella elegans
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Drawing with two voews of a shell of Stomatella elegans and a detail of its sculpture.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Stomatella
Species:
S. elegans
Binomial name
Stomatella elegans
Gray, 1847 [1]
Synonyms [2]

Granata elegans(Gray, 1847)

Stomatella elegans, common name the elegant stomatella, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae. [2]

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Description

(Original description by Gray) The height of the shell attains 25 mm. The oblong shell is rather depressed. Its color is white, black-spotted, showing the pearl through the semitransparent outer coat. It is closely and regularly spirally striated and concentrically wrinkled. The small spire is conical. The rounded whorls are convex. The body whorl is very rapidly enlarging. The oblong aperture spreads out twice as wide as the diameter of the last whorl. but one. The columella is less arched, and is flattened. The axis is imperforated. The smooth throat is silvery pearly. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Northwest Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific; also in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

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<i>Stomatella auricula</i> Species of gastropod

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<i>Stomatella callosa</i> Species of gastropod

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<i>Stomatella impertusa</i> Species of gastropod

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<i>Stomatella planulata</i> Species of gastropod

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<i>Stomatella stellata</i> Species of gastropod

Stomatella stellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

<i>Stomatella varia</i> Species of gastropod

Stomatella varia, common name the variable stomatella, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

<i>Synaptocochlea picta</i> Species of gastropod

Synaptocochlea picta, common name the painted false stomatella, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

<i>Stomatella</i> Genus of sea snails

Stomatella is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails and their allies.

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<i>Stomatella terminalis</i> Species of gastropod

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<i>Stomatella ungula</i> Species of gastropod

Stomatella ungula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

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References

  1. ↑ Gray, in Appendix to Narrative of the Voyage of H. M. S. Fly ii, p. 359, Marine sh., t. 2, f. 1, 1847.
  2. 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Stomatella elegans Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=559693 on 2021-01-04
  3. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII (described as Stomatella elegans)
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