Nepotilla minuta

Nepotilla minuta, common name the minute turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Nepotilla minuta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Nepotilla
Species:
N. minuta
Binomial name
Nepotilla minuta
(Tenison-Woods, 1877)
Synonyms[1]
  • Daphnella mimica fusca Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1897
  • Daphnella minuta (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
  • Drillia minuta Tenison-Woods, 1877
  • Eucyclotoma minuta Reeve, 1844
  • Zenepos minuta (Tenison-Woods, 1877)

Daphnella minuta Verco, 1909 is a synonym of Nepotilla mimica (Sowerby III, 1896), according to Hedley (1922). [2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 6 mm.

(Original description) The minute shell is fusiform, turreted, elongate and thin. It is saturated with a reddish chestnut. It contains 6 convex whorls, including the protoconch. They are spirally many keeled and between the keels thickly and slenderly longitudinally lirate. The protoconch consists of two subinflated whorls which are spirally and equally striate. The aperture is shorter than the spire, elongately ovate. The outer lip is thin and sinuous. The inner lip is inconspicuous. [3]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.

References
  1. Nepotilla minuta (Tenison-Woods, 1877). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1877. On some new Tasmanian marine shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1876: 131-159 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1897. List of Pleurotomidae of South Australia, with descriptions of some new species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 2: 24-32
  • Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471
  • May, W.L. 1923. An Illustrated Index of Tasmanian Shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp.
  • "Nepotilla minuta". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Grove, S.J. (2018). A Guide to the Seashells and other Marine Molluscs of Tasmania: Nepotilla minuta
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