Umbonium vestiarium

Umbonium vestiarium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Umboniinae
Genus: Umbonium
Species: U. vestiarium
Binomial name
Umbonium vestiarium
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Globulus vestiarius Schumacher, 1817 (unnecessary substitute name and thus objective synonym)
  • Rotella lineolata Lamarck, 1822
  • Trochus vestiarius Linnaeus, 1758

Umbonium vestiarium, common name the button tops, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Description

Th solid, rounded shells, areup to 2 cm wide. They are similar to Oxystele (above) but are more flattened and show a glossy, highly variable and colourfully patterned exterior. [1]

Habitat

They can be found on eulittoral sand.

Distribution

Indo-Pacific.

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