''Stomatella lintricula'' 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 ...
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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 top snails.
[Marshall, B. (2013). Stomatella lintricula (A. Adams, 1850). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=720374 on 2014-04-05]
Description
The thin, fragile, oblong shell is shaped like a ''
Haliotis''. Its back is convex. It is all over very delicately striated. It is flesh-colored, spotted with red. The small
spire is nearly terminal and laterally inclined. The open
aperture is very much lengthened.
Schepman
Mattheus Marinus Schepman (17 August 1847 – 19 November 1919) was a Dutch malacologist. He was one of the foremost collectors of mollusc shells in the Netherlands, and was also high on the overall list of European collectors.
Dutch collecto ...
gives a somewhat divergent description: the posterior part of the shell is nearly entirely yellowish-white with a green tinge, moreover a few smaller patches of the same colour are dispersed over the anterior part, a few dark spiral lines are more conspicuous on the posterior part. The surface is covered with very fine, close-set spiral and by more remote concentric striae. The species may be easily recognized by its very elongate shape.
Schepman 1908-1913, The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition; Leyden,E. J. Brill,1908-13
(described as ''Gena lintricula'')
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indo-Pacific (Indo-China, Indo-Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan) and off Queensland, Australia.
References
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. pt. 18-19 (1850-1851)
* Adams, A. 1854. ''Monograph of Stomatellinae. A sub-family of Trochidae''. 827-846, pls 173-175 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Thesaurus Conchyliorum. London : Sowerby Vol. 2.
* Brazier, J. 1877. ''Continuation of the Mollusca collected during the Chevert Expedition''. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 41-53
* Habe, T. 1964. ''Shells of the Western Pacific in color''. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls.
* Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (2001) ''Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Gastropoda Bivalvia Polyplacophora Scaphopoda Type Figures''. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 208 pp
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lintricula
Gastropods described in 1850