Minolia caifassii

Minolia caifassii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.[1]

Minolia caifassii
Drawing with two views of a shell of Minolia caifassii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Minolia
Species:
M. caifassii
Binomial name
Minolia caifassii
Carmagna, 1888

Description

The height of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 5 mm. The umbilicated, very fragile shell has a conoidal shape. The 5½ whorls are angular and flat above. The first 3 whorls are smooth, the remainder minutely cingulate, granose, and obliquely striate. They are ornamented with chestnut-brown radiating spots and whitish. The body whorl is angular at its base, convex below, and ornamented with 7 minutely grained concentric lirae. The ample umbilicus is scalariform, cingulate, granose, and bounded by a white crenate riblet.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

References

  • Caramagna, G (1888), Bullettino della Societa Malacologica Italiana v. 13 115–148, 1pl.
  • Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
  • Trew, A., 1984. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Part 30. Trochacea. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales.
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