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Minolia caifassii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.[1]
| Minolia caifassii | |
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| Drawing with two views of a shell of Minolia caifassii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Solariellidae |
| Genus: | Minolia |
| Species: | M. caifassii
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| Binomial name | |
| Minolia caifassii Carmagna, 1888
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Description
editThe 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.[2]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
References
edit- ^ Minolia caifassii Carmagna, 1888. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
- ^ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- Caramagna, G (1888), Bullettino della Societa Malacologica Italiana v. 13 115–148, 1pl.
- Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
- Trew, A., 1984. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Part 30. Trochacea. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales.