Stomatolina rubra

Stomatolina rubra, common name the red stomatolina, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Stomatolina rubra
Drawing with three views of a s shell of Stomatolina rubra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Stomatolina
Species:
S. rubra
Binomial name
Stomatolina rubra
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]
  • Microtis rubra (Deshayes, 1843)
  • Pseudostomatella rubra (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Stomatia rubra Lamarck, 1822

Description

The size of the shell varies between 8 mm and 18 mm. The depressed, rather thin shell has a small, conical spire. It is reddish brown, lighter beneath, or variously variegated. The surface is covered with close fine hair-like spiral striae, and with two low keels above the periphery, the upper one nodose. There is a series of short folds below the suture. The whorls of the spire contain a beaded carina. The wide body whorl is depressed, flattened above, convex below, and impressed at the axis. The large aperture is rounded, very oblique, and iridescent within.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the tropical Indo-West Pacific and off Korea, the Philippines and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

References
  1. Stomatolina rubra (Lamarck, 1822). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 March 2011.
  2. H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890 (described as Stomatia rubra)
  • Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp
  • Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands. Visaya Supplement 2: 1–228. page(s): 104
  • "Stomatolina rubra". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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