Venustoma lacunosa

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Venustoma lacunosa
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Original image of a shell of Venustoma lacunosa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Venustoma
Species:
V. lacunosa
Binomial name
Venustoma lacunosa
(Gould, 1860)
Synonyms [1]

Clathurella lacunosaGould, 1860 (original combination)

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Venustoma lacunosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. [1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 5 mm and 8 mm.

The small shell has an broadly, ovate shape. The six whorls are ornamented by well developed, sigmoid axial ribs and almost equally strong spiral cords, the junction of which produce rounded tubercles The whorls of the blunt spire show a roundly sloping shoulder. The pear-shaped aperture measures half the total length and has a weak sinus at the shoulder of the outer lip. The incrassate outer lip has a smooth interior. The stout columella is slightly bent. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Hong Kong and the Philippines

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