Clanculus depictus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]
| Clanculus depictus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Clanculus |
| Species: | C. depictus
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| Binomial name | |
| Clanculus depictus A. Adams, 1854
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Description
editThe pseudo-umbilicate shell has a conoid shape. It is white with green radial bands. It can also be yellow or gray with irregular black stripes running down the shell. It is decorated with unequal subgranose cinguli (spiral ornamentations). The whorls are plane, but the penultimate whorl is angulate. The margin of the umbilicus is simple. The top of the columella is uniplicate and below it has three small tubercles.[2][3]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mumbai.
References
edit- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Clanculus depictus A. Adams, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594192 on 2012-11-23
- ^ H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- ^ The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society v. 8 (1893)