Mirpurina verdensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.[1]
| Mirpurina verdensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Marginellidae |
| Subfamily: | Pruninae |
| Genus: | Mirpurina |
| Species: | M. verdensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Mirpurina verdensis (E.A. Smith, 1875)
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 10½ mm, its diameter 5 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The elongate shell has a cylindrical-ovate shape. It is shiny, and, moderately thin. It is pale yellow (or whitish), banded with several brown (sometimes pinkish-red) oblique transverse lines. The shell consists of four whorls. The spire is very short, with convex edges. The aperture is narrow, slightly widened at the base, extending nearly to the entire length of the shell. The columella is convex above and shows four oblique plaits, the one on top smallest, the next a little larger, the third largest oblique, the last (which forms the base of the columella) joined by a somewhat smaller third. The outer lip is slightly compressed in the middle, the edge is curved,outside very thickened, and the ends of the bands well marked.
The bands are thus disposed: just below the suture there is a very broad one, which is sharply defined above but not so beneath, but gradually blends into the ground-colour of the shell. A little below this there are two narrow lines close together, then a single one round about the middle of the whorl, then two more approximated, which terminate at the base of the outer lip. [2]
Distribution edit
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Verde
References edit
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Mirpurina verdensis (E. A. Smith, 1875). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1486123 on 2023-09-16
- ^ Smith, E. A. (1875). Descriptions of two new species of Marginellidae from the Cape-Verd Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 4, 16: 200-201
- Ortea, J. & Moro, L. (2020). Marginella (Volvarina) verdensis E. A. Smith, 1875, (Mollusca: Marginellidae), una especie válida de Mirpurina Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 2017, de la isla de Santiago, archipiélago de Cabo Verde. Avicennia. 27: 15-22.
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