''Minolia pompiliodes'' is a

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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 Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

in the

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Solariellidae.

Description

The height of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 9 mm. The shell has a conical and depressed shape. It has five

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s. The outer

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is thin. The columellar margin is reflected at the angle near the umbilicus. This is a most beautiful species, smooth, shining, ornamented with a beautiful regular series of white spots upon a bright fawn-coloured ground. At the periphery, which is not angled, the shell is whitish, with another line of zigzagged pale-brown markings more flame-shaped at the base. Around the deep umbilicus, the margin of which is very slightly angled, a row of dark-brown flames alternates with the white. The interior of the almost round

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is smooth and beautifully margaritaceous.J. Cosmo Melvill, ''Descriptions of eleven new species belonging to the genera Columbarium, Pisania, Minolia, Liotia and Solarium''; Journal of Conchology v. 6 (1889–1891)
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Distribution

The marine species occurs off the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Minolia Pompiliodes pompiliodes Gastropods described in 1891