Stomatia phymotis

Stomatia phymotis
Drawing with two views of a shell of Stomatia phymotis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Stomatia
Species: S. phymotis
Binomial name
Stomatia phymotis
(Hebling, 1779) [1]
Synonyms
  • Haliotis imperforata Gmelin, 1791
  • Stomatia australis A. Adams, 1850
  • Stomatia obscurata Lamarck, 1822
  • Stomatia (Miraconcha) obscura Sowerby, G.B. III, 1874
  • Stomax furonculus Montfort

Stomatia phymotis, common name the swollen stomatella, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 7 mm and 35 mm. The lengthened, solid shell is ear-shaped. It has a scalar spire. The body whorl descends very deeply. The shell is lusterless, red, marked at the suture, keel and base with olive or brown articulated with white. The surface is very rough, with a strong double nodulous keel at the middle of the whorl, several nodose spiral riblets and threads below it, strongly. The shell is plicate or puckered below the sutures. The aperture is irregular-oval and nacreous inside.

There is considerable variation in both form and color. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, Central and East Indian Ocean, East India, Indo-Malaysia, Oceania, the Philippines, Japan and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).

References

  1. Helbling, G.S. 1779. Beiträge zur Kenntnis neuer seltener Konchylien. 102-125, pl. 2 in Abhandlungen einer Privatgesellschaft in Böhmen zur Aufnahme der Mathematik, der väterlandischen Geschichte, und der Naturgeschichte. Prag : Ignaz Edlen von Born Vol. 4
  2. Stomatia phymotis (Hebling, 1779).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
  3. H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890

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