Umbonium vestiarium

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]

Umbonium vestiarium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
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

Description

The solid, rounded shells are up to 2 cm wide. They are similar to Oxystele 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. Umbonium vestiarium (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
  • Kilburn, R. N. (October 1977). "Taxonomic studies on the marine Mollusca of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 1". Annals of the Natal Museum. 23 (1): 173–214. hdl:10520/AJA03040798_574. ISSN 2305-2562. OCLC 877367.


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