Minolia caifassii explained

Minolia caifassii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.

Description

The height of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 5 mm. The umbilicated, very fragile shell has a conoidal shape. The 5½ whorls are angular and flat above. The first 3 whorls are smooth, the remainder minutely cingulate, granose, and obliquely striate. They are ornamented with chestnut-brown radiating spots and whitish. The body whorl is angular at its base, convex below, and ornamented with 7 minutely grained concentric lirae. The ample umbilicus is scalariform, cingulate, granose, and bounded by a white crenate riblet.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

References

Notes and References

  1. https://archive.org/details/manualofconcholo111tryo Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia