Monodonta confusa

Monodonta confusa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Monodonta
Species: M. confusa
Binomial name
Monodonta confusa
Tapparone-Canefri, 1874 [1]
Synonyms

Monodonta labio confusa Tapparone-Canefri, 1874

Monodonta confusa 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 20 mm, its diameter 18 mm. This species is shaped like Monodonta labio. The color is pink, longitudinally clouded with dusky. The penultimate whorl bears 5 or 6, the last 13 or 14 spiral ridges. The second one from the suture is very narrow. The others are subequal, but become smaller beneath. There are no lirulae intercalated between the ridges on the last whorl, as is usually the case in Monodonta labio. And the ridges are very conspicuously and regularly cut into oblong subquadrangular or lozenge-shaped grains by vertical impressions as deep as the interliral groove. The basal tooth of the columella is smaller and more acute than in a typical Monodonta labio. [4]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan, Singapore and the Philippines.

References

  1. ↑ Tapparone-Canefri, Zool. Viaggio della Magenta, Malac, p. 61, t. 1,f. 8 (1874)
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2012). Monodonta confusa Tapparone-Canefri, 1874. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=546923 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

External links

External identifiers for Monodonta confusa
Encyclopedia of Life 4794890
NCBI 336187
WoRMS 546923
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