Monilea lifuana

Monilea lifuana
Drawing with two views of a shell of Monilea lifuana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Monilea
Species: M. lifuana
Binomial name
Monilea lifuana
(P. Fischer, 1878) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Monilea (Monilea) lifuana (P. Fischer, 1878)
  • Trochus (Monilea) lifuanus P. Fischer, 1878
  • Trochus lifuanus Fischer, 1878 (original description)

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

Description

The height of the shell attains 11 mm, its diameter 14 mm. The rather thin, perforate shell has a conoid-depressed shape. Its; coloris very variable, whitish-buff or rosy, brown reddish, ornamented with rosy maculations and narrow spiral lines articulated with white. Transversely it is delicately sulcate, the sulci exquisitely decussated by incremental striae. The six whorls are slightly convex, the first buff, the remainder subangulate. The body whorl is dilated, slightly subangular in the middle, convex beneath and very finely decussated. The aperture is subovate and delicately sulcate within . The columella is arcuate. The thick columellar callusis semicircular, yellowish or livid-green, almost covering the umbilicus. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Lifou, Loyalty Islands.

References

  1. Fischer, Journ. de Conchyl. 1878, p. 63, 206
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Monilea lifuana (P. Fischer, 1878). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=572941 on 2012-11-23
  3. H. Pilsbry (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

External links

External identifiers for Monilea lifuana
WoRMS 572941
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