''Hemilienardia minor'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

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

Raphitomidae Raphitomidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". ''Malacologia'' 47(1-2). . 39 ...

.MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Hemilienardia contortula (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1875). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=980546 on 2019-06-30

Description

The length of the shell attains 4½ mm, its diameter 1¾ mm. (Original description) it can only be distinguished from ''

Hemilienardia apiculata ''Hemilienardia apiculata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Hemilienardia apiculata (Montrouzier, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: h ...

'' (Montrouzier in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1864) which has not yet been found at the Andamans, by its smaller size The row of opaque, white spots on the back of 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 ...

are very characteristic. It is nearest allied to ''

Hemilienardia malleti ''Hemilienardia malleti'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae Raphitomidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet P. & ...

'' (Récluz, 1852) which also lives at the Andamans and under precisely similar conditions.Nevill G. & Nevill H. (1875) ''Descriptions of new marine Mollusca from the Indian Ocean.'' Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 44(2): 83–104, pls. 7–8
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Distribution

This marine species occurs off the

Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between th ...

References

* Wiedrick S.G. (2017). Aberrant geomorphological affinities in four conoidean gastropod genera, Clathurella Carpenter, 1857 (Clathurellidae), Lienardia Jousseaume, 1884 (Clathurellidae), Etrema Hedley, 1918 (Clathurellidae) and Hemilienardia Boettger, 1895 (Raphitomidae), with the descriptionof fourteen new Hemilienardia species from the Indo-Pacific. The Festivus. special issue: 2-45.

External links

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q61700485

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Gastropods described in 1875