Stomatella biporcata

Stomatella biporcata
Drawing of a shell of Stomatella biporcata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Stomatella
Species:	S. biporcata
Binomial name
Stomatella biporcata A. Adams, 1850

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

Description

The shell is turbinate and subdepressed. Its color is red and white, obscurely variegated. It is transversely sulcate. The acuminate spire contains four whorls, the last with two prominent ridges. The subquadrate aperture is pearly within. The inner lip is nearly straight. The outer lip is bi-angulate in the middle. The umbilicus is covered by a callus.

This is a small red species, with two rounded ridges on the body whorl and with a subquadrate aperture. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia.

References

1. Marshall, B. (2013). Stomatella biporcata A. Adams, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=720373 on 2014-04-04
2. H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890

• Adams, A. 1850. An arrangement of Stomatellidae, including the characters of a new genus Cumingia, with some additional generic characters. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850(18): 29-40, pl. 8
• Hedley, C. 1907. The Mollusca of Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland, part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 476-513, pls 16-21
• Tomlin, J.R. le B. 1921. Six new marine shells from South Africa. Journal of Conchology 16: 215-217, pl. 8

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