Clanculus quadricingulatus
| Clanculus quadricingulatus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Clanculus |
| Species: | C. quadricingulatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Clanculus quadricingulatus Ludbrook N.H., 1941
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Clanculus quadricingulatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]
Description
Clanculus quadricingulatus is characterized by:
- Small, globose-conical shell (8-12 mm height) with 5-6 convex whorls
- Distinctive spiral pattern of four dark bands on a cream to pinkish background[2]
- Umbilicate aperture with denticulate margins
- Thick, pearly operculum
- Radula formula: ∞·5·1·5·∞[3]
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia.
References
- ^ Ludbrook N.H. Gastropoda from the Abattoirs Bore, Adelaide, South Australia, together with a List of some Miscellaneous Fossils from the Bore; Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia v. 65, p. 82 (1941)
- ^ Garcia, Abigail; Anticamara, Jonathan (4 January 2024). "Current Estimates of Philippine Marine Mollusks Taxonomic Diversity". Philippine Journal of Science. 152 (6B). doi:10.56899/152.6b.16. ISSN 0031-7683.
- ^ Zootaxa. 3914 (3). 28 January 2015. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3914.3. ISSN 1175-5334 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3914.3.
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