Umbonium vestiarium

Umbonium vestiarium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:Trochoidea
Family:Trochidae
Genus:Umbonium
Species: U. vestiarium
Binomial name
Umbonium vestiarium
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Globulus vestiarius Schumacher, 1817 (unnecessary substitute name and thus objective synonym)
  • Rotella lineolata Lamarck, 1822
  • Trochus vestiarius Linnaeus, 1758

Umbonium vestiarium, common name the button tops, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Description

Th solid, rounded shells, areup to 2 cm wide. They are similar to Oxystele (above) but are more flattened and show a glossy, highly variable and colourfully patterned exterior.[1]

Habitat

They can be found on eulittoral sand.

Distribution

Indo-Pacific.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Umbonium vestiarium (Linnaeus, 1758).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
  • Kilburn, R.N. (1977) Taxonomic studies on the marine Mollusca of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 1. Annals of the Natal Museum, 23, 173–214.


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