Granata imbricata

Granata imbricata, common names the imbricate margarite, tiled false ear shell, true wide-mouthed shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chilodontaidae.[2]

Granata imbricata
Five views of a shell of Granata imbricata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Chilodontaidae
Genus: Granata
Species:
G. imbricata
Binomial name
Granata imbricata
(Lamarck, 1816) [1]
Synonyms[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania.

Description

The size of the shell varies between 19 mm and 43 mm. The solid shell is very much depressed. It is white with scattered reddish dots. Its surface is covered with very numerous, close, equal spiral riblets, separated by deep interstices. Seen closely, it is finely scaly. It has a low, short spire. The four whorls widen with extreme rapidity. The subhorizontal aperture is transverse-oval. It is lined with a closely sulcate silvery and iridescent nacre. The broad columella is flattened, and a little concave. Its edge is arched and thin.[3]

References
  1. Lamarck, Anim. s. Vert, vi, p. 209.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2012). Granata imbricata (Lamarck, 1816). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547208 on 2013-04-14
  3. G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII (described as Stomatella imbricata)
  • To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
  • To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
  • "Granata imbricata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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