Stomatolina rubra

Stomatolina rubra
Drawing with three views of a s shell of Stomatolina rubra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Stomatolina
Species: S. rubra
Binomial name
Stomatolina rubra
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]
  • Microtis rubra (Deshayes, 1843)
  • Pseudostomatella rubra (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Stomatia rubra Lamarck, 1822

Stomatolina rubra, common name the red stomatolina, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 8 mm and 18 mm. The depressed, rather thin shell has a small, conical spire. It is reddish brown, lighter beneath, or variously variegated. The surface is covered with close fine hair-like spiral striae, and with two low keels above the periphery, the upper one nodose. There is a series of short folds below the suture. The whorls of the spire contain a beaded carina. The wide body whorl is depressed, flattened above, convex below, and impressed at the axis. The large aperture is rounded, very oblique, and iridescent within. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the tropical Indo-West Pacific and off Korea, the Philippines and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

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