Gibbula spratti

Gibbula spratti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

Gibbula spratti
Drawing with two views of a shell of Gibbula spratti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Gibbula
Species:
G. spratti
Binomial name
Gibbula spratti
(Forbes, 1844) [1]
Synonyms
  • Trochus alveolatus Philippi, 1846 (dubious synonym)
  • Trochus spratti Forbes, 1844

Description

The size of the shell varies between 5 mm and 8 mm. The somewhat thick, narrowly perforate shell has a conoid shape. It is whitish, radiately tlammulate with deep brown subquadrate maculations. The shell is very finely obliquely striate, and concentrically lirate. Each whorl is encircled by two more prominent, remote sulci. The shell contains 6 convex whorls, separated by deep sutures, and inflated above. The body whorl is subangulate, convex beneath, and contains numerous unequal concentric lirae. The aperture is rhomboidal. The slightly convex columella is sinuous in the middle.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Aegean Sea.

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References

  1. Forbes, Rep. Brit. Asso. Adv. Sci, 1843, p. 190 (1844)
  2. Gibbula spratti (Forbes, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
  3. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  • "Gibbula spratti". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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