Ethaliella pulchella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1][2]
| Ethaliella pulchella | |
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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: | Ethaliella |
| Species: | E. pulchella
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| Binomial name | |
| Ethaliella pulchella (A. Adams, 1855)
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Description
editThe length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 10 mm. The umbilicate shell has a sublenticular shape and is obtusely angulated. It is smooth, shining, grayish-straw colored, above with little pale greenish-brown angular lines often confluent into wider streaks, below painted with white spots. The spire is a little prominent and contains five whorls. The whitish apex is a little acute. The base around the umbilicus is rather broadly, perspectively, radiately corrugated and angulate. The very oblique aperture has a subrhomboidal shape. Its throat is pearly. The outer lip has a small callus. The whitish peristome is straight and obtuse. The basal margin is arcuate. The columellar margin is expanded in a rosy, tongue-shaped callus, partly covering the umbilicus.[3][4]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Philippines and in the Indo-West Pacific Region.
References
edit- ^ Bouchet, P. (2012). Ethaliella pulchella (A. Adams, 1855). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547304 on 2012-11-23
- ^ Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands. Visaya Supplement 2: 1-228.
- ^ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London pt. 21-23 (1853-1855) (described as Isanda pulchella)
- ^ H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Ethalia pulchella)
External links
edit- Encyclopedia of Life
- World Register of Marine Species
- "Ethaliella pulchella". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.