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Pseudominolia climacota

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Pseudominolia climacota is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

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The epithet "climacota" is derived from the Greek word for "terraced".

Description

The height of the shell attains 14 mm, its diameter also 14 mm. The solid shell has a gradate conical shape. It is subdepressed and narrowly umbilicate,. Its color is white-ochraceous or white-cenereous. The shell contains seven whorls with much impressed sutures. The whorls are irregularly spirally deeply lirate. The lirae are conspicuously sulculose with triangular blotches of black-brown painting. The smooth base is plane but triangular at the periphery. Below the periphery it is ornated with brown to ashy gray flames. The aperture is angulated round with a simple lip.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Iran.

References

Pseudominolia climacota Wikipedia


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