Clelandella_miliaris

<i>Clelandella miliaris</i>

Clelandella miliaris

Species of gastropod

Clelandella miliaris is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

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Description

The size of the shell varies between 7 mm and 18 mm. The imperforate, rather thin, but pretty solid shell has a strictly conical shape. It is whitish or yellowish, with more or less obvious longitudinal flames, often reduced to a few spots on the ribs and a row of spots at the periphery of each whorl. The surface is densely finely sculptured by spiral lirae crossed by very regular oblique lamellae, producing a clathrate pattern. The spiral lirae number about 6 on each whorl, but often double as many, by the intercalation of riblets in the interstices. The periphery has a prominent keel, cord-like, with secondary spiral striae, or bifid, cut into compressed granules, somewhat prominent above the sutures. The base has about 8 concentric ribs. The interstices are radiately striate, sometimes with a central riblet. The spire has a conical shape with about 7 whorls. The periphery is acutely angled. The base of the shell is flat. The aperture is quadrangular. The short columella is nearly straight.[3]

Distribution

This marine species has a wide distribution. It occurs off Lofoten Islands, the North Sea (Norway to Gibraltar), off Cape Verde Islands, West Sahara and Mauritania; in the Mediterranean Sea and the Adriatic Sea. In the Baltic Sea it has become a vulnerable species.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Brocchi G. B. (1814). Conchiologia fossile subappenninica con osservazioni geologiche sugli Appennini e sul suolo adiacente. Milano Vol. I: pp. LXXX + 56 + 240; Vol. II, pp. 241–712, pl. 1–16. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 1 May 2010.
  2. [2]
    Clelandella miliaris (Brocchi, 1814). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 December 2018.
  3. [3]
    Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Calliostoma miliaris)
  4. [4]
    HELCOM (2013). "HELCOM Red List of Baltic Sea species in danger of becoming extinct" (PDF). Baltic Sea Environmental Proceedings (140): 66. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
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