Thalotia elongata

Thalotia elongata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Thalotia elongata
Image of a shell of Thalotia elongata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Thalotia
Species:
T. elongata
Binomial name
Thalotia elongata
Sowerby, G.B. I, 1818
Synonyms
  • Cantharidus elongatus Wood, 1828

See also: Tosatrochus attenuatus (Jonas, 1844)

Description

The height of the shell varies between 25 mm and 30 mm. The thick, imperforate or very narrowly perforate shell has a conic-elongated shape. It is whitish, ornamented with radiating livid-brown flammules, brown punctulate. The 9 whorls are convex, spirally lirate (the lirae unequal) and longitudinally nodose-costate, the nodules more prominent below. The sutures are impressed. The angulated body whorl is depressed beneath the sutures and nodulous at the periphery. It is very convex and with about 8 concentric lirae beneath, the interstices with intercalated lirulae. The aperture is subquadrate and canaliculate within. The basal margin is arcuate and plicate. The columella is subangular, concave, strongly truncate at base, with a short callus over the umbilicus.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the South Australia, West Australia and the Western Pacific.

References
  1. "Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London" part XIX (1851)
  2. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Cantharidus elongatus)
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