Granata maculata
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| Granata maculata | |
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| A shell of Granata maculata | |
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| Ventral view of a shell of Granata maculata | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Family: | Chilodontaidae |
| Genus: | Granata |
| Species: | G. maculata
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| Binomial name | |
| Granata maculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)[1]
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Granata maculata is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chilodontaidae.[2]
Description
[edit | edit source]The small, oval shell is inflated. It has a rounded prominent spire containing 4 whorls. It is very delicately striate longitudinally and transversely. It is pale yellow, marbled with brown and reddish brown. The columellar margin is flattened. The regularly oval aperture is nacreous and striate within. The operculum is very thin.[3]
Distribution
[edit | edit source]This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Vanikoro and the Torres Strait.
References
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- ^ Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. de 1'Astrolabe, Zoologie iii, p. 305, t. 66 bis, f. 13–16
- ^ a b Granata maculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). Bouchet, P. (2010). Granata maculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547199 on 24 September 2012 .
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII (described as Stomatella maculata)
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