Minolia rotundata

Minolia rotundata
Original drawing of a shell of Minolia rotundata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Minolia
Species: M. rotundata
Binomial name
Minolia rotundata
(Sowerby III, 1894)
Synonyms

Monilea rotundata Sowerby III, 1894

Minolia rotundata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.[1]

Description

The height of the shell attains 3½ mm, its diameter also 3½ mm. The shell has a globose-conoidal shape and is profoundly umbilicated. It contains 4½ convex whorls with a short and obtuse spire. It is spirally lirated. The sutures are canaliculated. The body whorl is ventricated and has a slight angle. The aperture is rounded. There is a thick nodulous ridge bordering the umbilicus.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs off Hong Kong.

References

  1. ↑ S. Williams: Minolia rotundata
  2. ↑ G.B. Sowerby III, Descriptions of new species of marine shells from the neighbourhood of Hong Kong; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 1 pp. 153-161, pl.12

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