Ethalia_carneolata Knowpia

Ethalia carneolata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Ethalia
Species:	E. carneolata
Binomial name
	Ethalia carneolata; Melvill, 1897
Synonyms
	Ethalia carneolata var. rubrostrigata Melvill, 1904; Ethalia striolata Kilburn, 1977; Rotella carneolata (Melvill, 1897);

Ethalia carneolata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Description edit

The height of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 7 mm. The smooth, little shell has a depressedly conical shape. It has a profound but narrow umbilicus. The shell contains 5 to 6 whorls that increase rapidly in size. They are separated by impressed sutures. The apex is minute. The body whorl is obtuse-angulate at the periphery. The aperture is round. The columellar margin contains a callus. The colour of the shell is a pale carnation or flesh-colour in hue. Inside the aperture there is a deeper shade of the same colour, painted with fillets spirally or ochre-brown beaded with white.^[4]

Distribution edit

This marine species occurs off Mozambique and South Africa. It has also been reported in the Gulf of Oman.^[5] and off Sri Lanka.^[6]

References edit

^ ^a ^b Bouchet, P. (2012). Ethalia carneolata Melvill, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567713 on 2012-11-23
^ Herbert D.G. (1992). Revision of the Umboniinae (Mollusca: Prosobranchia: Trochidae) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum 33(2):379-459.
^ Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
^ J.C. Melvill, Descriptions of Thirty-four Species of Marine Mollusca from the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman; Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society v. 41 (1896-1897)
^ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1902 v. 2
^ W.A. Herdman, Report to the government of Ceylon on the pearl oyster fisheries, p. 270

Herbert D.G. (1992). Revision of the Umboniinae (Mollusca: Prosobranchia: Trochidae) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum 33(2):379-459.