Mangelia posidonia | |
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Original image of a shell of Mangelia posidonia | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Mangeliidae |
Genus: | Mangelia |
Species: | M. posidonia
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Binomial name | |
Mangelia posidonia J.C. Melvill, 1904
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Mangelia posidonia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mangeliidae. [1]
The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 2 mm.
This is a solid white shell with a short fusiform shape. It contains 8 whorls of which 2½ smooth, vitreous whorls in the protoconch. The subsequent whorls are much impressed at the suture. They contain a few axial ribs, crossed spirally by angulate lirae (eight lirae in the body whorl). The narrow aperture is oblong. The outer lip is incrassate. The columella is simple. [1]
This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.
Mangelia posidonia | |
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Original image of a shell of Mangelia posidonia | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Mangeliidae |
Genus: | Mangelia |
Species: | M. posidonia
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Binomial name | |
Mangelia posidonia J.C. Melvill, 1904
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Mangelia posidonia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mangeliidae. [1]
The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 2 mm.
This is a solid white shell with a short fusiform shape. It contains 8 whorls of which 2½ smooth, vitreous whorls in the protoconch. The subsequent whorls are much impressed at the suture. They contain a few axial ribs, crossed spirally by angulate lirae (eight lirae in the body whorl). The narrow aperture is oblong. The outer lip is incrassate. The columella is simple. [1]
This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.