Ethalia carneolata
| Ethalia carneolata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Ethalia |
| Species: | E. carneolata
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| Binomial name | |
| Ethalia carneolata Melvill, 1897
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Ethalia carneolata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1][2][3]
Description
The height of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 7 mm. The smooth, little shell has a depressedly conical shape. It has a profound but narrow umbilicus. The shell contains 5 to 6 whorls that increase rapidly in size. They are separated by impressed sutures. The apex is minute. The body whorl is obtuse-angulate at the periphery. The aperture is round. The columellar margin contains a callus. The colour of the shell is a pale carnation or flesh-colour in hue. Inside the aperture there is a deeper shade of the same colour, painted with fillets spirally or ochre-brown beaded with white.[4]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Mozambique and South Africa. It has also been reported in the Gulf of Oman.[5] and off Sri Lanka.[6]
References
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2012). Ethalia carneolata Melvill, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567713 on 2012-11-23
- ^ Herbert D.G. (1992). Revision of the Umboniinae (Mollusca: Prosobranchia: Trochidae) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum 33(2):379-459.
- ^ Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
- ^ J.C. Melvill, Descriptions of Thirty-four Species of Marine Mollusca from the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman; Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society v. 41 (1896-1897)
- ^ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1902 v. 2
- ^ W.A. Herdman, Report to the government of Ceylon on the pearl oyster fisheries, p. 270
- Herbert D.G. (1992). Revision of the Umboniinae (Mollusca: Prosobranchia: Trochidae) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum 33(2):379-459.
External links
- To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
- To World Register of Marine Species
- "Ethalia carneolata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.