Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Superfamily Trochoidea Scientific name Gibbula drepanensis | Phylum Mollusca Clade Vetigastropoda Family Trochidae Rank Species | |
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Similar Gibbula fanulum, Gibbula racketti, Gibbula spratti, Gibbula ardens, Gibbula spurca | ||
Gibbula drepanensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
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Description
The size of the shell varies between 2 mm and 5 mm. The small shell is narrowly umbilicate, depressed, and stomatella-shaped. It is whitish, zigzagly striped with red, the stripes often broken into spots, white around the umbilicus. The spire is very short. The sutures are impressed. The 3 to 4 whorls are convex and rapidly widening. They are encircled by spiral striae which are nearly obliterated on the body whorl. This body whorl is very large and depressed . The large aperture is oblique and subcircular. The columella is arcuate.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands.
References
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