''Clanculus edentulus'' is a
species of
sea snail
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, a
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Trochidae, the bottom snails.
[Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Clanculus edentulus'' (A. Adams, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567195 on 2012-11-23]
OBIS
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(the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database) declares this species an
Incertae Sedis (with uncertain taxonomic placement ).
Description
The shell has an orbiculate-conoid shape. It is dirty red with white spots. The transverse ribs are granulated. The
whorl
A whorl ( or ) is an individual circle, oval, volution or equivalent in a whorled pattern, which consists of a spiral or multiple concentric objects (including circles, ovals and arcs).
Whorls in nature
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s are slightly convex. The umbilical margin is subcrenulate. The top of the
columella is plicate. The columella lacks a denticle and has three tubercles at its base. The inner
lip is subsulcate.
H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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References
* Adams, A., 1853. C''ontributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gastropodous Mollusca''. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1851(19):150-192
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
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edentulus
Gastropods described in 1853