Stomatolina

Stomatolina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

Stomatolina
Apical view of a shell of Stomatolina angulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Stomatolina
Iredale, 1937 [1]
Type species
Stomatella rufescens
Gray, 1847

Description

The depressed shell is rather flattened above and below. The aperture is quite oblique. The sculpture consists of numerous spirals, of which several have low carinae, more numerous intermediate riblets, and still more numerous interstitial spiral striae. These are sometimes decussated by growth lines.[3]

Distribution

This maritime genus occurs in the Red Sea and off Indo-Malaysia, Oceania, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Korea, the Philippines and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland).

Species

Species within the genus Stomatolina include:

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also mentions the following species [5]

  • Stomatolina orbiculata (A. Adams, 1850)

References
  1. Iredale, 1937: The Australian Zoologist, 8(4): 245
  2. Stomatolina . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 June 2012.
  3. H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
  4. Stomatolina danblumi Singer & Mienis, 1999. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
  5. OBIS : Stomatolina
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  • 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.
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