Ethaliella rhodomphala

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

Ethaliella rhodomphala
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Ethaliella
Species:
E. rhodomphala
Binomial name
Ethaliella rhodomphala
(E.A. Smith, 1903)
Synonyms

Ethalia rhodomphala E.A. Smith, 1903

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Maldives, New Caledonia and New South Wales (Australia).

The New Caledonian occurrence may actually be Trochus (Monilea) rhodomphalus Souverbie, 1875.[3] This species seems, as Fischer has suggested, close to Trochus rotelloeformis Philippi.[4]

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Ethaliella rhodomphala (E.A. Smith, 1903). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547306 on 2012-11-23
  2. Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands. Visaya Supplement 2: 1-228.
  3. Souverbie, Journal de Conchyliologie, 1875, p. 36, PI. 4, fig. 3.
  4. Philippi, Conchylien Cabinet, Trochus, p. 302, PI. 44, fig. 2.


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