Melanella hypsela

Melanella hypsela
Shells of Melanella hypsela
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Eulimidae
Genus: Melanella
Species:
M. hypsela
Binomial name
Melanella hypsela
Verrill & Bush, 1900
Synonyms
  • Eulima hypsela Verrill & Bush, 1900
  • Eulima engonia Verrill & Bush, 1900
  • Melanella engonia Verrill & Bush, 1900

Melanella hypsela is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of a number within the genus Melanella.

Distribution

This species occurs in the following locations:

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 8 mm., its diameter 2.5 mm.

(Original description) The shell is rather slender and very elongated, consisting of sixteen whorls in the adult, besides a very minute apical whorl. The whorls are very flat, so that the outlines of the spire are rectilinear. The suture is distinct and not impressed, being somewhat oblique (more so than in Melanella amblytera). The body whorl is evenly rounded, as well as somewhat produced and narrowed in front. The aperture is long-ovate, acute posteriorly, and obtusely rounded and somewhat flaring anteriorly and at the columellar margin, with its edge being strongly sinuous in a profile view.

The color is bluish-white, being slightly tinged with brown on the lower whorls and having a strong brown tint showing through by transparency on most of the upper whorls; it is sometimes pure white. The surface is smooth and brilliantly polished.

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 15 m. Maximum recorded depth is 525 m.

References

  1. ↑ Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. 2015. Melanella hypsela (Verrill & Bush, 1900). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419846 on 2015-08-27.
  2. ↑ Rogers, Arlenie; Hamel, Jean-François; Quetzal, Junior; Souza, Leonardo; Mercier, Annie (2024-01-01), "Decorator sea cucumbers: An overview of epibiotic associates of Holothuria floridana and H. mexicana", in Mercier, Annie; Hamel, Jean-François; Suhrbier, Andrew D.; Pearce, Christopher M. (eds.), The World of Sea Cucumbers, Academic Press, pp. 429–441, ISBN 978-0-323-95377-1, retrieved 2024-07-18
  3. ↑ Queiroz et al. (2013). "New host records to Melanella (Caenogastropoda: Eulimidae) from the Brazilian coast". Marine Biodiversity Records 6: e67. doi:10.1017/s1755267213000407.
  4. 1 2 3 Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
  5. ↑ Verrill A.E. and Bush K.J. (1900). "Additions to the marine Mollusca of the Bermudas". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 10: 526. Retrieved 17 September 2026. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.