Aclis thesauraria

Aclis thesauraria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.

Aclis thesauraria
Shell of Aclis thesauraria (holotype at the Natural History Museum, London))
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Vanikoroidea
Family:	Eulimidae
Genus:	Aclis
Species:	A. thesauraria
Binomial name
Aclis thesauraria Melvill, 1904

This is a taxon inquirendum (use in recent literature not established by editor)

Description

The length of the shell attains 2.5 mm, its diameter 1 mm.

(Original description) The very small, white shell has an ovate-fusiform shape. It contains nine whorls. The 3+1⁄2 apical whorls are almost caudate, three to four of almost uniform narrow build, quite smooth and glossy. The remainder are uniformly acutely keeled. The aperture is round. The thickened peristome with a squarish extension of the columellar base, half hides the narrow umbilicus.

In sculpture it shows kinship with Aclis ascaris (Turton, 1819).

Distribution

This minute marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.

External links

• Melvill, J. C. (1904). Descriptions of twelve new species and one variety of marine Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian Sea, collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend, 1902–1904. Journal of Malacology. 11 (4): 79-85, pl. 8