Mitromorpha crassilirata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.[1]
Mitromorpha crassilirata | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Mitromorphidae |
Genus: | Mitromorpha |
Species: | M. crassilirata
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Binomial name | |
Mitromorpha crassilirata (Verco, 1909)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 4.5 mm, its diameter 1.7 mm.
(Original description) The shell is slightly longer than Mitromorpha paucilirata and more solid, with the same number of spirals, but these are much stouter, the infrasutural cord being specially round and conspicuous.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia.
References
editExternal links
edit- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.