Minolops cinerea

Minolops cinerea
Original drawing of a shell of Minolops cinerea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:Trochoidea
Family:Solariellidae
Genus:Minolops
Species: M. cinerea
Binomial name
Minolops cinerea
(Preston, 1909)
Synonyms

Minolia cinerea Preston, 1909

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

Description

The height of the shell attains 6.75 mm, its diameter 6.5 mm. The shining shell has a roundly turbinate shape. It is grey, painted above with closely set transverse bands of greyish brown. The 6½ whorls are flattened above. The sculpture and the colouring is complicated and it is very difficult to give anything like an adequate description. The whorls are sculptured with a number of beaded carinae, increasing to four on the body whorl. The space above these are occupied by two spiral beaded riblets, a third also occurring between the first and second carinae. The sutures are impressed. The base of shell is sculptured with two spiral grooves and a number of very fine spiral striae. It is painted with a zone of fine, closely set cinereous flammules, within which is a second zone almost uniformly of the same colour. The umbilicus is whitish, wide, deep, and bears several small, indistinct, spiral, crenate riblets. The outer margin is surrounded by a coarsely crenulate carina. The columella is somewhat angularly arched above, descending obliquely and terminating rather abruptly. The peristome is acute. The aperture is subquadrate.[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Queensland.

References

  1. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2013). Minolops cinerea (Preston, 1909). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=744761 on 2013-12-01
  2. ↑ Preston, H.B. 1909. Description of new trochid shells from North Queensland. ; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 8 pp. 377–378 (1908–1909)
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