Pseudominolia climacota is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1][2]
| Pseudominolia climacota | |
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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: | Pseudominolia |
| Species: | P. climacota
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudominolia climacota (Melvill, 1897)
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| Synonyms | |
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Minolia climacota Melvill, 1897 | |
The epithet "climacota" is derived from the Greek word for "terraced".
Description
editThe 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
editThis marine species occurs off Iran.
References
edit- ^ 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
- ^ Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
- ^ Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society v.41 (1896-1897) (described as Minolia climacota)