Mitromorpha paula

Mitromorpha paula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.[1]

Mitromorpha paula
Original image (and protoconch) of Mitromorpha paula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mitromorphidae
Genus: Mitromorpha
Species:
M. paula
Binomial name
Mitromorpha paula
Verco, 1909
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitromorpha (Mitrolumna) paula (Verco, J.C., 1909)
  • Mitromorpha paula var. leuca Verco, J.C. 1909

Description

The length of the shell attains 3.8 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.

(Original description) The minute, solid shell consists of 4½ whorls, including a blunt protoconch of 2 whorls,. The whorls of the protoconch are convex and apparently smooth, but microscopically granular, separated by a linear suture. It ends abruptly, and from within it issue the spirals of the first spire-whorls. Perfect specimens show the granules in very close-set spiral rows. The spire whorls are slightly convex, with eight spiral lirae. The sutures are simple. The body whorl is arge, tapering anteriorly. The aperture is elongate-oval and rather widely open in front. The outer lip is simple, crenulated outside by the sculpture, slightly convex in profile, with a minute round, shallow sinus close to the suture. The inner lip is a complete narrow glaze. The sculpture shows twenty-three spiral lirae, flat-topped, half as wide as the interspaces, axially faintly incised. The colour is cinnamon-brown, lighter in a band on the prominence of the whorls.[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia.

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References
  1. Mitromorpha paula Verco, 1909. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
  2. Verco, J.C. 1909. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 293–342
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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