Synaptocochlea caliginosa

Synaptocochlea caliginosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

Synaptocochlea caliginosa
Drawing of a shell of Synaptocochlea caliginosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Fossarininae
Genus: Synaptocochlea
Species:
S. caliginosa
Binomial name
Synaptocochlea caliginosa
(H. & A. Adams, 1863) [1]
Synonyms
  • Gena caliginosa (Adams in Sowerby)
  • Stomatella caliginosa H. & A. Adams, 1863 (original description)

Description

The oblong, imperforate shell is ear-shaped. Its color is blackish. The spire is small. The shell is transversely lirate, larger and smaller lirae alternating, obsoletely articulated with white. The oblong aperture is very oblique, greenish white within. Its black margin is crenulate. The inner lip is rather flattened. There is a narrow lunar umbilical rimation. The thin operculum is orbicular and multispiral [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius.

References

  • 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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