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Ilanga undata

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Superfamily
  
Trochoidea

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Clade
  
Vetigastropoda

Family
  
Solariellidae

Ilanga undata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.

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Subspecies
  • Ilanga undata sphinx Herbert, 1987
  • Ilanga undata undata (G. B. Sowerby, 1870)
  • Description

    The height of the shell attains 9 mm, its diameter 15 mm. The depressed, pale reddish or fawn shell is perforated with a round umbilicus up to the apex. It is faintly spirally lirate and angulated almost above the suture. It is rounded-angular at the middle of the keel. The corners are red-stained. The interstices show red waving lines.

    Distribution

    This marine species occurs off the Agulhas Bank to the West Cape Province, South Africa

    References

    Ilanga undata Wikipedia