Ethalia minolina

Ethalia minolina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1][2]

Ethalia minolina
Original drawing with two views of a shell of Ethalia minolina var. infralaevior
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Ethalia
Species:
E. minolina
Binomial name
Ethalia minolina
Melvill, 1897

The epithet minolina was given because of the resemblance with the genus Minolia.

M.M. Scheprman has described a variety Ethalia minolia var. infralaevior from Indonesian waters.[3]

Description

The height of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 10 mm. The pretty bright shell has a depressedly conical shape. It contains six whorls of rufous-flesh colour. They are uniformly very closely striate with threads with a pattern of banded filleting of white and fawn colour. The deep umbilicus is partly covered by the tongue-shaped callus extending from the columellar margin. The body whorl is at its periphery round-angulate. The operculum is corneous.[4]

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Ethalia minolina Melvill, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=701810 on 2012-11-23
  2. Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
  3. Schepman 1908-1913, The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition; Leyden,E. J. Brill,1908-13
  4. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society v.41 (1896-1897)
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