Mo154 Monilea solandri (Solander's Top Snail)

 Mo154                                   Monilea solandri (Solander's Top Snail)

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Gastropoda

Order: Trochida

Family: Trochidae

Genus: Monilea

Species: Monilea solandri

 

Description:

          The solid shell has a depressed-conical shape. The outer surface is sharply, spirally striate, and closely obliquely striated. The shell has a developed callous ridge or funicle revolving on the inner side of the whorl within the umbilicus, and terminating at the columella, the edge of which is reflexed over it. The sinuous columella terminates in a point or denticle at its base. The outer lip is lirate within.

 

IUCN Status: Not evaluated.