Pseudominolia climacota explained

Pseudominolia climacota is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.^{[1] [2]}

The epithet "climacota" is derived from the Greek word for "terraced".

Description

The height of the shell attains 14 mm, its diameter also 14 mm. The solid shell has a gradated conical shape. It is subdepressed and narrowly umbilicate,. Its color is white-ochraceous or white-cinereous. The shell contains seven whorls with much impressed sutures. The whorls are irregularly spirally deeply lirate. The lirae are conspicuously sulculose with triangular blotches of black-brown painting. The smooth base is plane but triangular at the periphery. Below the periphery it is ornated with brown to ashy gray flames. The aperture is angulated round with a simple lip.^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Iran.

External links

• World Register of Marine Species

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Pseudominolia climacota (Melvill, 1897). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=701817 on 2012-11-23
2. Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
3. https://archive.org/details/memoirsprocee41189697manc Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society v.41 (1896-1897)