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Minolia malcolmia

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Species of gastropod

Minolia malcolmia
Original drawing of a shell of Minolia malcolmia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Minolia
Species: M. malcolmia
Binomial name
Minolia malcolmia
Melvill, 1891

Minolia malcolmia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.

Description

The height of the shell attains 3.5 mm, its diameter 6 mm. The solid shell has a depressed conical shape. It is narrowly umbilicated. The shell contains 4½ whorls. The small aperture has an ovate-triangular shape. The columellar margin has a slight callus. This is a small, subconical, solid species, not so shining as some of its allies. It has red-brown speckled markings. It has no angle at the periphery. It is slightly depressed and crenulated at the sutures.

Distribution

The marine species occurs off the Philippines.

References

  1. S. Williams: Minolia malcolmia
  2. J. Cosmo Melvill, Descriptions of eleven new species belonging to the genera Columbarium, Pisania, Minolia, Liotia and Solarium; Journal of Conchology v. 6 (1889–1891)
Taxon identifiers
Minolia malcolmia
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