Ilanga aquamarina

Ilanga aquamarina
Original drawing with two views of a shell of Ilanga aquamarina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Ilanga
Species: I. aquamarina
Binomial name
Ilanga aquamarina
(Melvill, 1909)
Synonyms
  • Solariella aquamarina Melvill, 1909

Ilanga aquamarina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.[1]

Description

The shell has a depressed conical shape and is deeply umbilicate. It contains six whorls. The three apical whorls are small and thin.The aperture is round. The horny operculum has 6-7 spirals. The shell has a slightly fugitive colour of pearly aquamarine or beryl. It is remarkably smooth, the only sculpture being the incised radiate sulculi around the umbilicus, and the fine spiral liration of the apical whorls. The simple peristome is remarkably thin and not in the least reflected. This species has all the appearance of an abysmal shell.[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Saya de Malha Bank, West Indian Ocean

References

  1. 1 2 Melvill, JC, 1909, Report on the marine Mollusca obtained by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., among the Islands of the Indian Ocean in 1905; Transactions of the Linnean Society, ser.2 v. 13 pp. 65-139, 1 pl. (described as Solariella aquamarina)

External links

External identifiers for Ilanga aquamarina
WoRMS 567643
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