Stomatia splendidula

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

Stomatia splendidula
Drawing with two views of a shell of Stomatia splendidula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Stomatia
Species:	S. splendidula
Binomial name
Stomatia splendidula A. Adams, 1855 [1]

Description

The imperforate shell is ear-shaped and orbicularly depressed. The shell contains 3 bicarinate whorls. The roughened body whorl is transversely lirate with unequal line. The interstices are longitudinally striated. The shell is pale above, with radiating reddish-brown flames at the sutures, below reddish dotted with brown. The base of the shell is ornamented with red radiating flames. The aperture is white and opaque within, with bright green lines. Its margin is pearly.

In this species the columellar margin is reflexed and pearly, but the interior of the aperture, with the exception of the internal margin of the outer lip, is opaque white, with green spiral lines.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra; in the Pacific Ocean off Japan.

References

1. A. Adams., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 133
2. Stomatia splendidula A. Adams, 1855. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
3. H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890

• Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (2001) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Gastropoda Bivalvia Polyplacophora Scaphopoda Type Figures. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 208 pp