Minolia ceraunia

Minolia ceraunia is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.[1]

Minolia ceraunia
Original drawing of a shell of Minolia ceraunia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Minolia
Species:
M. ceraunia
Binomial name
Minolia ceraunia
Melvill, 1891

Description

The height of the shell attains 3 mm, its diameter 5 mm. The white, solid, deeply umbilicated shell has a depressed shape. It is slightly transversely furrowed. The shell contains four whorls, with the last one rapidly increasing in size. It is distinguished by regular longitudinal flame markings becoming small, paler, and more zigzagged, below the somewhat angled periphery, and all uniting round the umbilicus in a red band. The aperture is ovate-triangular. The lip is simple. The columellar margin is thickened.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

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References

  • "Minolia ceraunia". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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