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Monilea lifuana

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Monilea lifuana
Drawing with two views of a shell of Monilea lifuana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Monilea
Species:
M. lifuana
Binomial name
Monilea lifuana
(P. Fischer, 1878)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Monilea (Monilea) lifuana (P. Fischer, 1878)
  • Trochus (Monilea) lifuanus P. Fischer, 1878
  • Trochus lifuanus Fischer, 1878 (original description)

Monilea lifuana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

Description

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The height of the shell attains 11 mm, its diameter 14 mm. The rather thin, perforate shell has a conoid-depressed shape. Its; coloris very variable, whitish-buff or rosy, brown reddish, ornamented with rosy maculations and narrow spiral lines articulated with white. Transversely it is delicately sulcate, the sulci exquisitely decussated by incremental striae. The six whorls are slightly convex, the first buff, the remainder subangulate. The body whorl is dilated, slightly subangular in the middle, convex beneath and very finely decussated. The aperture is subovate and delicately sulcate within . The columella is arcuate. The thick columellar callus is semicircular, yellowish or livid-green, almost covering the umbilicus.[3]

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Lifou, Loyalty Islands.

References

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  1. ^ Fischer, Journ. de Conchyl. 1878, p. 63, 206
  2. ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2012). Monilea lifuana (P. Fischer, 1878). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=572941 on 2012-11-23
  3. ^ H. Pilsbry (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  • Herbert D.G. (1996) A critical review of the trochoidean types in the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Bordeaux (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, ser. 4, 18 (A, 3-4): 409-445.
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  • World Register of Marine Species
  • "Monilea lifuana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.