Conradia doliaris

Conradia doliaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Vetigastropoda (unassigned)
Family: Crosseolidae
Genus: Conradia
Species: C. doliaris
Binomial name
Conradia doliaris
A. Adams, 1863
Synonyms

Fossarus (Gottoina) doliaris A. Adams, 1863

Conradia doliaris is a species of small sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Crosseolidae.[1]

Description

(Original description by Arthur Adams) The height of the shell attains 2.5 mm. The dirty white shell has a turbinate shape with 4½ whorls and a profound umbilicus. The very thin shell contains distant transverse ridges, and the interstices are neatly cancellated. The aperture is nearly circular, and the sutures are deeply channeled. The thin lip is arcuated.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

External links

External identifiers for Conradia doliaris
WoRMS 607190
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