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Stomatella lintricula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
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Description
The thin, fragile, oblong shell is shaped like a Haliotis. Its back is convex. It is all over very delicately striated. It is flesh-colored, spotted with red. The small spire is nearly terminal and laterally inclined. The open aperture is very much lengthened.
Schepman gives a somewhat divergent description: the posterior part of the shell is nearly entirely yellowish-white with a green tinge, moreover a few smaller patches of the same colour are dispersed over the anterior part, a few dark spiral lines are more conspicuous on the posterior part. The surface is covered with very fine, close-set spiral and by more remote concentric striae. The species may be easily recognized by its very elongate shape.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indo-Pacific (Indo-China, Indo-Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan) and off Queensland, Australia.