Mitromorpha crassilirata

Mitromorpha crassilirata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mitromorphidae
Genus:	Mitromorpha
Species:	M. crassilirata
Binomial name
	Mitromorpha crassilirata; (Verco, 1909)
Synonyms
	Aesopus pallidulus (Hedley, 1906); Mitromorpha paucilirata var. crassilirata Verco, 1909 (original combination); Mitromorpha (Mitrolumna) crassilirata (Verco, 1909);

Mitromorpha crassilirata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.^[1]

Description edit

The 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 edit

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia.

References edit

^ ^a ^b Mitromorpha crassilirata Verco, 1909. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
^ Verco, J.C. 1909. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 293–342

External 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.

[WoRMS-1] Mitromorpha crassilirata Verco, 1909. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.

[2] Verco, J.C. 1909. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 293–342

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