Stomatia decussata

Stomatia decussata
Drawing of a shell of Stomatia decussata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:Trochoidea
Family:Trochidae
Genus:Stomatia
Species: S. decussata
Binomial name
Stomatia decussata
A. Adams, 1850 [1]

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

Description

The ovate-oblong shell is longitudinally and transversely decussately striate, with two simple or subtuberculated angular, prominent carinae. The shell is pale, varied with brown spots. The spire is elevated. The oblique aperture is nearly circular. The lip is biangulate in the middle.

This species is decussated with transverse and longitudinal striae, and there are two prominent, angular, keels on the whorls. The spire is acute and prominent.[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and off Queensland, Australia

References

  1. ↑ Adams, A. 1850. An arrangement of Stomatellidae, including the characters of a new genus Cumingia, with some additional generic characters. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850(18): 29-40, pl. 8
  2. ↑ Marshall, B. (2013). Stomatia decussata A. Adams, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=720377 on 2014-04-10
  3. ↑ H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
  • Brazier, J. 1877. Continuation of the Mollusca collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 41-53
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