Minolops pulcherrima emendata

Minolops pulcherrima emendata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Solariellidae
Genus:	Minolops
Species:	M. p. emendata
Binomial name
	Minolops pulcherrima emendata; (Iredale, 1924)
Synonyms
	Minolops emendatus (Iredale, 1924) (§junior subjective synonym);

Minolops pulcherrima emendata is a subspecies of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.

This is a subjective junior synonym of Minolops pulcherrimus (Angas, 1869): synonym of Spectamen pulcherrimum (Angas, 1869)

Description

The height of the shell attains 2.5 mm, its diameter 5 mm. The penultimate whorl contains five prominent keels, all of equal strength.

The shell is made up of 6 whorls, the last one being tricarinate, white and rounded beneath. Its striae are fine and close-set, with the body-whorl being pinkish or yellowish white stained with bright rose.

Distribution

This marine subspecies is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales

References

↑ Bouchet, P. (2013). Minolops emendata (Iredale, 1924). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=744756 on 2013-12-01
1 2 Angas, George French (1869). "Descriptions of twelve new species of land and marine shells from Australia and the Solomon Islands". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis. p. 48.

Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179-279, pl. 33-36
Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1-109 [33]
Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Additions to the marine molluscan fauna of south eastern Australia including descriptions of new genus Pillarginella, six new marine species and two subspecies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 25: 177–210, 1 pl.
Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.

External links

Charles Gabriel, Additions to the marine molluscan fauna of South Eastern Australia, including descriptions of the new genus Pillarginella, six new species and two subspecies; Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria v. 25, 1962

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[WoRMS-1] Bouchet, P. (2013). Minolops emendata (Iredale, 1924). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=744756 on 2013-12-01

[:0-2] 1 2 Angas, George French (1869). "Descriptions of twelve new species of land and marine shells from Australia and the Solomon Islands". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis. p. 48.