Ethalia minolina
| Ethalia minolina | |
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| Original drawing with two views of a shell of Ethalia minolina var. infralaevior | |
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. minolina
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| Binomial name | |
| Ethalia minolina Melvill, 1897
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Ethalia minolina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1][2]
The epithet minolina was given because of the resemblance with the genus Minolia.
M.M. Scheprman has described a variety Ethalia minolia var. infralaevior from Indonesian waters. [3]
Description
The height of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 10 mm. The pretty bright shell has a depressedly conical shape. It contains six whorls of rufous-flesh colour. They are uniformly very closely striate with threads with a pattern of banded filleting of white and fawn colour. The deep umbilicus is partly covered by the tongue-shaped callus extending from the columellar margin. The body whorl is at its periphery round-angulate. The operculum is corneous.[4]
References
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2012). Ethalia minolina Melvill, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=701810 on 2012-11-23
- ^ Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
- ^ Schepman 1908-1913, The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition; Leyden,E. J. Brill,1908-13[permanent dead link]
- ^ Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society v.41 (1896-1897)