Ethaliella pulchella

Ethaliella pulchella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Ethaliella
Species: E. pulchella
Binomial name
Ethaliella pulchella
(A. Adams, 1855)
Synonyms
  • Ethalia pulchella (A.Adams, 1855)
  • Isanda pulchella A. Adams, 1855 (original combination)
  • Umbonium pulchella (A. Adams in H. & A. Adams, 1854)

Ethaliella pulchella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1][2]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 10 mm. The umbilicate shell has a sublenticular shape and is obtusely angulated. It is smooth, shining, grayish-straw colored, above with little pale greenish-brown angular lines often confluent into wider streaks, below painted with white spots. The spire is a little prominent and contains five whorls. The whitish apex is a little acute. The base around the umbilicus is rather broadly, perspectively, radiately corrugated and angulate. The very oblique aperture has a subrhomboidal shape. Its throat is pearly. The outer lip has a small callus. The whitish peristome is straight and obtuse. The basal margin is arcuate. The columellar margin is expanded in a rosy, tongue-shaped callus, partly covering the umbilicus. [3] [4]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and in the Indo-West Pacific Region.

References

  1. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2012). Ethaliella pulchella (A. Adams, 1855). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547304 on 2012-11-23
  2. ↑ Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands. Visaya Supplement 2: 1-228.
  3. ↑ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London pt. 21-23 (1853-1855) (described as Isanda pulchella)
  4. ↑ H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Ethalia pulchella)

External links

External identifiers for Ethaliella pulchella
Encyclopedia of Life 18652550
WoRMS 547304
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