Scrinium gatliffi

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

Scrinium gatliffi
Original image of a shell of Scrinium gatliffi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mitromorphidae
Genus: Scrinium
Species:
S. gatliffi
Binomial name
Scrinium gatliffi
(Verco, 1909)
Synonyms
  • Drillia gatliffi Verco 1909 (original combination)
  • Mangilia gatliffi Gatliff and Gabriel, 1910

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.25 mm, its diameter 2.25 mm.

(Original description) The small, white, solid shell is shining, elongate-oval and blunt. It consists of 5 whorls, including a protoconch of 2 smooth convex whorls, and a very flatly convex apex. The spire-whorls are sloping convex. The suture is distinct, subcanaliculate, undulating and margined. The body whorl is nearly as long as the spire, slightly attenuated at the base and truncate. The aperture is oval, slightly narrowed behind, wide in front, notched and without a siphonal canal. The outer lip is straightly convex, with a shallow, wide sinus behind, sharp, not inflected, smooth within. The inner lip is narrow, smooth, applied, free at the front, with a callus posteriorly at the junction with the outer lip. The columella is subconcave, joining the body whorl at a very open angle. The spiral sulcations are equidistant, 9 in the penultimate, 17 in the body whorl. The axial accremental striae, distinct under the microscope, cross the spirals, sinuous, comparatively distant, especially on the body whorl.[2]

Distribution

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

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References
  1. "Australian Faunal Directory: Scrinium gatliffi". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  2. Walter Howchin, ed. (December 1909). "Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia". 33. Adelaide. Retrieved 20 April 2018. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Gatliff and Gabriel, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., xxxiii., 1910, p. 89.
  • Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56
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