Minolia singaporensis

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

Minolia singaporensis
Original drawing of a shell of Minolia singaporensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Minolia
Species:
M. singaporensis
Binomial name
Minolia singaporensis
(Pilsbry, 1889)
Synonyms[1]

Monilea singaporensis Pilsbry, 1889

Description

The height of the shell attains 3 mm, its diameter 2½ mm. The narrowly, deeply umbilicate shell has a conical-turreted shape. it is thin, lusterless, whitish, with a series of obscure brownish blotches below the suture, and a chain of large brown blotches around the outer part of the base. The spire is conical. The minute apex is acute. The sutures are deeply impressed. The shell has about 5 whorls. These are very convex, those of the spire bicarinate The body whorl has two principal carinae and several smaller ones on the base of the whorl. The entire surface is very regularly strongly obliquely crispate-striate. The aperture is almost perfectly circular. It is in contact with the body whorl for only a short distance. The lips are thin, the outer and inner lip equally curved. The deep umbilicus is funnel-shaped.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Singapore.

References
  1. Minolia singaporensis (Pilsbry, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  2. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

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