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Stomatella modesta

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Stomatella modesta
Drawing with three views of a shell of Stomatella modesta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Stomatella
Species:
S. modesta
Binomial name
Stomatella modesta
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864
Synonyms
  • Stomatella doriae Issel, 1869
  • Stomatella scitula H. Adams, 1872
  • Stomatolina scitula (H. Adams, 1872)

Stomatella modesta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Description

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The height of the shell attains 234 mm, its diameter 412 mm. The fragile, thin shell has an orbiculate-conoid shape and is much depressed. It is imperforate and is transversely minutely striate-costulate. Its color is whitish painted with irregular chestnut spots. The spire is obtuse and contains four convex whorls, separated by impressed sutures. The first whorl is narrow and slowly increasing. The body whorl is large, rather convex above, and rounded beneath. The large aperture is very oblique and subrotund. The acute peristome is interrupted. The columellar margin is a little reflexed at the insertion. The throat is a little pearly.[2]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs in the Red Sea.

References

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  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Stomatella modesta H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=863105 on 2022-06-24
  2. ^ H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
  • Zuschin, M., Janssen, R. & Baal, C. (2009). Gastropods and their habitats from the northern Red Sea (Egypt: Safaga). Part 1: Patellogastropoda, Vetigastropoda and Cycloneritimorpha. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 111[A]: 73–158.
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