Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Superfamily Trochoidea Scientific name Trochus bellardii | Phylum Mollusca Clade Vetigastropoda Family Trochidae Rank Species | |
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Similar Trochus radiatus, Trochus maculatus, Clanculus, Gibbula, Trochidae | ||
Ethalia bellardii is a species of sea snail with a top-shaped shell, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
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Description
The minute, thin shell has a height of only 2 mm. Its shape is orbicular-depressed, oblique, narrowly umbilicate, transversely minutely costulate. It has a pale rose-color, tessellated with purple. The spire is obtuse. The 4½ whorls are rapidly widening, slightly convex, and planulate at the sutures. They are separated by impressed sutures. The body whorl is large and rounded on the base. The aperture is dilated, ovate-trigonal. The peristome is simple and acute.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Red Sea off Suez.
References
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