Ethalia bellardii is a species of sea snail with a top-shaped shell, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]
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| Drawing of a shell of Ethalia bellardii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Ethalia |
| Species: | E. bellardii
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| Binomial name | |
| Ethalia bellardii (Issel, 1869)
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Description
editThe minute, thin shell has a height of only 2 mm. Its shape is orbicular-depressed, oblique, narrowly umbilicate, transversely minutely costulate. It has a pale rose-color, tessellated with purple. The spire is obtuse. The 4½ whorls are rapidly widening, slightly convex, and planulate at the sutures. They are separated by impressed sutures. The body whorl is large and rounded on the base. The aperture is dilated, ovate-trigonal. The peristome is simple and acute.[2]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Red Sea off Suez.
References
edit- ^ Ethalia bellardii (Issel, 1869). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 June 2013.
- ^ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
External links
edit- "Ethalia bellardii". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.