Chlorodiloma millelineata

Chlorodiloma millelineata
Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Chlorodiloma millelineata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Chlorodiloma
Species: C. millelineata
Binomial name
Chlorodiloma millelineata
(Bonnet, 1864) [1]
Synonyms
  • Diloma (Chlorodiloma) millelineata (Bonnett, 1864)
  • Trochus (Monodonta) millelineatus Bonnet, 1864

Chlorodiloma millelineata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2][3]

Description

The height of the shell attains 19 mm, its diameter 21 mm. The thick shell has a very deep umbilicus, nearly reaching to the apex. It is a little shining, yellowish, with elongated flexuous unequal brownish-green spots and dots of the same color. The acute spire is little elevated. The 6 whorls are obliquely striate. The body whorl is very large and contains numerous irregular spiral ridges, stronger and numbering 6 on the base, with obliquely striate interstices. The oblique aperture is rounded, nacreous with greenish reflections and showing the folds inside.[4]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs in the Torres Straits and off Queensland.

References

  1. ↑ Bonnet, A. 1864. Coquilles nouvelles ou peu connues: Acantina delorioli, Bulimus wairgeirensis, Planorbis sinuosus, Littorina aurea, Trochus millelineata, Conus rubescens. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée 1864, XVI: 279-282
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2012). Chlorodiloma millelineata (Bonnet, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=546914 on 2012-11-23
  3. ↑ Donald K.M., Kennedy M. & Spencer H.G. (2005) The phylogeny and taxonomy of austral monodontine topshells (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae), inferred from DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37: 474-483.
  4. ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Trochus millelineatus)

External links

External identifiers for Chlorodiloma millelineata
Encyclopedia of Life 18652851
WoRMS 546914
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