Monilea chiliarches

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

Monilea chiliarches
Original drawing of a shell of Monilea chiliarches
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Monilea
Species:
M. chiliarches
Binomial name
Monilea chiliarches
Melvill, 1910

Description

The height of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 8 mm. The delicate, turbinate shell is narrowly umbilicate. Its exterior is pale, white-straw but pearly inside. The shell contains 5 bulbous whorls. The apical whorl is vitreous. The others are smooth and have gradual spiral ascent. Three upper whorls (especially the penultimate) show radially sculptured sutures. The two keels are margined accordingly. The penultimate whorl is longitudinally oblique. The body whorl is bicarinate. Between the sutures, the shell is radially obliquely adorned with margined keels. The base of the shell shows five spiral irae. The aperture is round with an iridescent interior.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Persian Gulf and in the central and eastern Indian Ocean.

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Monilea chiliarches Melvill, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=701815 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. J.C. Melvill, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology 8th ser. v.6 (1910)
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