''Nepcollona munda'' is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Colloniidae.
Description
The length of the shell attains 4 mm, its width 4 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The depressed-turbinate shell is solid and narrowly umbilicate. It is encircled by numerous ridges, with larger ones at the periphery. The surface is closely striated longitudinally. It is whitish, and adorned with pale tawny streaks and spots. It features 4 convex Whorl (mollusc), whorls, angular above, with the body whorl having a slightly convex base. The umbilicus is bordered by a crenulated cord. The circular Aperture (mollusc), aperture is accompanied by a varicose, strongly crenulated Peristome (gastropod), peristome
Distribution
This species occurs in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.
References
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Mollusca types in Britain and Ireland: Neocollonia munda - imageBiolib.cz: Neocollonia munda - image
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Neocollonia, munda
Gastropods described in 1873