Synaptocochlea caliginosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]
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| Drawing of a shell of Synaptocochlea caliginosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Subfamily: | Fossarininae |
| Genus: | Synaptocochlea |
| Species: | S. caliginosa
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| Synaptocochlea caliginosa (H. & A. Adams, 1863) [1]
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Description
editThe oblong, imperforate shell is ear-shaped. Its color is blackish. The spire is small. The shell is transversely lirate, larger and smaller lirae alternating, obsoletely articulated with white. The oblong aperture is very oblique, greenish white within. Its black margin is crenulate. The inner lip is rather flattened. There is a narrow lunar umbilical rimation. The thin operculum is orbicular and multispiral [3]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius.
References
edit- ^ H. & A. Adams., Proceedings of the Zoological Society 1863 p. 434
- ^ The Indo-Pacific Moluscan Database: Synaptocochlea caliginosa
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
- Trew, A., 1984. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Part 30. Trochacea. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales.