Solariella affinis
Solariella affinis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.[1]
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| Drawing of a shell of Solariella affinis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Solariellidae |
| Genus: | Solariella |
| Species: | S. affinis |
| Binomial name | |
| Solariella affinis (Friele, 1877) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Trochus amabilis var. affinis Friele, 1877 (basionym) | |
Description
The whitish-pearly, thin shell is broadly umbilicated. It has a conoidal shape. The 5½ convex whorls are separated by a gradate suture. They are ornamented with oblique, dense regular radiating costellae, and two spiral lirae on the lower part. The body whorl is ventricose, radiately costellate above, with three acute elevated median spiral cinguli, beneath with obsolete concentric striae. The umbilicus is wide, carinated at the periphery, plicate, and denticulate. The aperture is subcircular.
This marine species is finely and closely reticulated ; the whorls are rounded and show no trace of angularity. The umbilicus is not encircled by a keel.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Bay of Biscay.
References
- Bouchet, P. (2013). Solariella affinis (Friele, 1877). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=740750 on 2013-12-03
- Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- Friele H., 1877: Preliminary report on the Mollusca from the Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition in 1876; Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 23: 1-10, 1 pl.
- Williams S.T., Smith L.M., Herbert D.G., Marshall B.A., Warén A., Kiel S., Dyal P., Linse K., Vilvens C. & Kano Y. (2013) Cenozoic climate change and diversification on the continental shelf and slope: evolution of gastropod diversity in the family Solariellidae (Trochoidea). Ecology and Evolution 3(4): 887–917