Lirularia canaliculata
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| Several views of a shell of Lirularia canaliculata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Lirularia |
| Species: | L. canaliculata
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| Lirularia canaliculata (E.A. Smith, 1871)
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Lirularia canaliculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae.[1]
Description
The height of this small shell measures 3 mm. It is broadly umbilicated, pearly and beautifully prismatic. The spire is depressed-conical. It contains five whorls, the first two are smooth, the remainder spirally lirate, and ornamented beneath the channelled sutures with a series of white tubercles, here and there marked with brown. The body whorl is encircled by chestnut-dotted carinae. The base of the shell contains a purple-brown zone. The umbilicus is perspective, margined by a somewhat tubercular cord. The aperture is subcircular.[2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Equatorial Guinea and Angola.
References
- ^ a b Lirularia canaliculata (E.A. Smith, 1871). Gofas, S. (2010). Lirularia canaliculata (E.A. Smith, 1871). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=549278 on 28 February 2011 .
- ^ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Minolia canaliculata)
- Rubio F. & Rolán E. 1997. Una nueva especie de Lirularia (Gastropoda: Trochidae) de las islas de São Tomé y Príncipe. Iberus 15 (1): 23-29.