Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Superfamily Trochoidea Scientific name Jujubinus montagui | Phylum Mollusca Clade Vetigastropoda Family Trochidae Rank Species | |
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Similar Jujubinus striatus, Jujubinus, Gibbula racketti, Gibbula fanulum, Gibbula spratti | ||
Jujubinus montagui 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 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.
Distribution
This species occurs in the North Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean (from Scotland to Madeira) and in the Mediterranean Sea.