''Clanculus edentulus'' is a species of

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mollusk in the family Trochidae, the bottom snails.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Clanculus edentulus'' (A. Adams, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567195 on 2012-11-23

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(the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database) declares this species an Incertae Sedis (with uncertain taxonomic placement ).

Description

The shell has an orbiculate-conoid shape. It is dirty red with white spots. The transverse ribs are granulated. The

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s are slightly convex. The umbilical margin is subcrenulate. The top of the columella is plicate. The columella lacks a denticle and has three tubercles at its base. The inner lip is subsulcate.H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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References

* Adams, A., 1853. C''ontributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gastropodous Mollusca''. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1851(19):150-192

External links

To World Register of Marine Species
{{Taxonbar, from=Q5125673 edentulus Gastropods described in 1853