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Stomatolina rubra

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Species of gastropod

Stomatolina rubra
Drawing with three views of a s shell of Stomatolina rubra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Stomatolina
Species: S. rubra
Binomial name
Stomatolina rubra
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms
  • Microtis rubra (Deshayes, 1843)
  • Pseudostomatella rubra (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Stomatia rubra Lamarck, 1822

Stomatolina rubra, common name the red stomatolina, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Description

The size of the shell varies between 8 mm and 18 mm. The depressed, rather thin shell has a small, conical spire. It is reddish brown, lighter beneath, or variously variegated. The surface is covered with close fine hair-like spiral striae, and with two low keels above the periphery, the upper one nodose. There is a series of short folds below the suture. The whorls of the spire contain a beaded carina. The wide body whorl is depressed, flattened above, convex below, and impressed at the axis. The large aperture is rounded, very oblique, and iridescent within.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the tropical Indo-West Pacific and off Korea, the Philippines and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

References

  1. ^ Stomatolina rubra (Lamarck, 1822). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 March 2011.
  2. H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890 (described as Stomatia rubra)
  • Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp
  • Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands. Visaya Supplement 2: 1–228. page(s): 104

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Taxon identifiers
Stomatolina rubra
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