''Clanculus largillierti'' is a species of

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mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.WoRMS (2012). ''Clanculus largillierti'' (Philippi, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567725 on 2012-11-23

Description

The height of the shell attains 14 mm, its diameter 16 mm. The perforate shell has a conoid shape with an acute apex and 6½

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s.,The first whorl is rosy, the following whorls convex, grayish, spotted with white and black at the narrow sutures. They are spirally lirate with numerous granulose lirae, 8 to 10 on the penultimate whorl. The

body whorl The body whorl is part of the morphology of the shell in those gastropod mollusks that possess a coiled shell. The term is also sometimes used in a similar way to describe the shell of a cephalopod mollusk. In gastropods In gastropods, the b ...

is rounded, concentrically lirate beneath with 8 to 10 lirae, gray and brown articulated. The oblique aperture is rhomboidal. The lip is dentate above. The basal margin is plicate. The oblique columella is dentate at its base. The parietal callus is wrinkled. The umbilicus is bordered by strong white plicae.H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
(described as ''Trochus largillierti'')

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off

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References

External links

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)

To World Register of Marine Species
* {{Commonscat largillierti Gastropods described in 1849 Taxa named by Rodolfo Amando Philippi