''Minolops cinerea'' is a

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of sea snail, a

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Solariellidae Solariellidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).Gofas, S. (2011). Solariellidae. Accessed through: World Register ...

.Bouchet, P. (2013). Minolops cinerea (Preston, 1909). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=744761 on 2013-12-01

Description

The height of the shell attains 6.75 mm, its diameter 6.5 mm. The shining shell has a roundly turbinate shape. It is grey, painted above with closely set transverse bands of greyish brown. The 6½

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s are flattened above. The sculpture and the colouring is complicated and it is very difficult to give anything like an adequate description. The whorls are sculptured with a number of beaded carinae, increasing to four on the body whorl. The space above these are occupied by two spiral beaded riblets, a third also occurring between the first and second carinae. The sutures are impressed. The base of shell is sculptured with two spiral grooves and a number of very fine spiral striae. It is painted with a zone of fine, closely set cinereous flammules, within which is a second zone almost uniformly of the same colour. The

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is whitish, wide, deep, and bears several small, indistinct, spiral, crenate riblets. The outer margin is surrounded by a coarsely crenulate carina. The

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is somewhat angularly arched above, descending obliquely and terminating rather abruptly. The

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is acute. The

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is subquadrate. Preston, H.B. 1909. ''Description of new trochid shells from North Queensland''. ; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 8 pp. 377–378 (1908–1909)
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Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q16985832 cinerea Gastropods of Australia Gastropods described in 1909