Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Superfamily Trochoidea | Phylum Mollusca Clade Vetigastropoda Family Trochidae | |
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Stomatella biporcata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
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Description
The shell is turbinate and subdepressed. Its color is red and white, obscurely variegated. It is transversely sulcate. The acuminate spire contains four whorls, the last with two prominent ridges. The subquadrate aperture is pearly within. The inner lip is nearly straight. The outer lip is bi-angulate in the middle. The umbilicus is covered by a callus.
This is a small red species, with two rounded ridges on the body whorl and with a subquadrate aperture.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia.
References
Stomatella biporcata Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA