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Gibbula pennanti

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Trochoidea

Genus
  
Gibbula

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Species

Clade
  
Vetigastropoda

Family
  
Trochidae

Scientific name
  
Gibbula pennanti

Higher classification
  
Gibbula

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Similar
  
Gibbula, Gibbula umbilicalis, Gibbula cineraria, Gibbula varia, Gibbula umbilicaris

Gibbula pennanti is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

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Gibbula pennanti TROCHIDAE

The species was named in honor of Thomas Pennant (1726 – 1798) was a Welsh naturalist.

Description

Gibbula pennanti TROCHIDAE

The size of the shell varies between 10 mm and 16 mm. The shell is more depressed than Gibbula cineraria, and (although the base is flatter) never inclined to a pyramidal form. The spiral ridges are sharper and fewer, especially in the young. The present species is usually more widely umbilicate and broader than Gibbula cineraria. The coloring is different; both have a similar kind of marking, but in the present species the longitudinal rays or streaks are red, besides being broader and not half so many as in the other species. And they are sometimes zigzag, instead of being broken into spots or interrupted by the sculpture. This species is striped, the other lineated. Just within the outer lip are two borders, one of yellow, the other of green variegated by red spots. This edging is minutely tubercled like shagreen.

Distribution

This species occurs in the North Sea and off Spain.

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References

Gibbula pennanti Wikipedia