Jujubinus montagui

Jujubinus montagui
Drawing with two views of a shell of Jujubinus montagui
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Jujubinus
Species: J. montagui
Binomial name
Jujubinus montagui
(Wood, 1828)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cantharidus montagui (W. Wood, 1828)
  • Jujubinus montagui mediterraneus Ghisotti & Melone, 1975
  • Trochus abandus Chiereghini (misspelling)
  • Trochus abanteus Nardo, 1847
  • Trochus cyrnaeus Réquien, 1848 (dubious synonym)
  • Trochus montacuti Jeffreys, 1865
  • Trochus montagui Wood, 1828 (original description)
  • Trochus parvulus Philippi, 1844
  • Trochus solidulus Monterosato, T.A. de M. di
  • Trochus striatus Forbes, E.
  • Trochus tumidulus Nardo, 1847

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

Description

The size of the shell varies between 3 mm and 9 mm. The imperforate or very minutely perforate shell has a conical. The 7 whorls are a little convex. The earlier buff, following pale buffish-ashen, is ornamented with obscure maculations or zones of chestnut. The shell is obliquely striate, spirally lirate with 6 subequal lirae on the penultimate whorl . The body whorl is a little convex above, carinated in the midde, convex beneath and provided with 7-8 concentric, white-and-brown articulated lirae. The aperture is rhomboid. The columella is subtruncate below. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the North Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean (from Scotland to Madeira) and in the Mediterranean Sea.

References

Venezia; pp. i-xi, 1-127

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