Umbonium moniliferum
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Trochidae |
Genus: | Umbonium |
Species: | U. moniliferum
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Binomial name | |
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Umbonium moniliferum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]
Description
[edit]The size of the shell varies between 10 mm and 20 mm. The solid shell is depressed with a very low, conoidal spire. Its color pattern is yellow, pinkish or whitish, closely tessellated with purple-brown or bluish slate-color, the basal callus purplish flesh-colored. Its surface is shining, polished, with spiral sulci above, generally 3–5 in number on the body whorl, often subobsolete. The suture is sometimes margined by a row of prominent tubercles, 8 to 11 on the body whorl. The shell contains about six whorls, the last rounded at the periphery, convex beneath. The callus is quite heavy, convex and circular.[3]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off Japan and South Korea.
References
[edit]- ^ Lamarck, Animaux sans vertèbres VII p. 8
- ^ Umbonium moniliferum (Lamarck, 1822). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
- ^ H. Pilsbry (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- MacDonald & Co (1979). The MacDonald Encyclopedia of Shells. MacDonald & Co. London & Sydney.
External links
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- "Umbonium (Suchium) moniliferum". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.