Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Calliostomatidae Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Trochoidea Genus Margarella | |
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Similar Margarella antarctica, Pareuthria, Calliostomatidae, Nacella, Calliostoma | ||
Margarella violacea is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae, the top snails.
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Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 7 mm and 13.5 mm. The purplish-pink shell is imperforate, orbicular-conical, thin and smooth. There are four swollen whorls.The suture is scarcely impressed. The rounded-quadrangular aperture is angular above, and subangular at the base of slightly thickened and arcuate columella. The umbilico-columellar tract is excavated.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean on the coast of Argentina and the Falkland Islands, i.e. in the Magellanic Region.
References
Margarella violacea Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA