''Minolia strigata'' is a

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, a marine

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in the

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Solariellidae Solariellidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).Gofas, S. (2011). Solariellidae. Accessed through: World Register of ...

.MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Minolia strigata G. B. Sowerby III, 1894. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1353573 on 2019-06-24

Description

The height of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter also 5 mm. The grayish white shell has a conical-turbinate shape and is deeply umbilicate. It has a high

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. It is stained with spots in flames that are generally longitudinally arranged. The shell contains 5–6

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s that are noticeably bicarinate. They contain oblique fine-drawn stripes. 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 subquadrate, tricarinate and gently convex at its base. It contains radial striae. The deep umbilicus is subcircular and contains numerous slender plicae. The

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is subcircular. The peristome is simple. This species is allied to '' Minolia singaporensis'' Pilsbry, 1889 but is larger and proportionately shorter, with three prominent keels on the body whorl and one bordering the umbilical cord.G.B. Sowerby III, ''Descriptions of new species of marine shells from the neighbourhood of Hong Kong''; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 1 pp. 153–161, pl.12
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Distribution

This species occurs off

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minolia Strigata strigata Gastropods described in 1894