| Pseudominolia climacota | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Pseudominolia |
| Species: | P. climacota |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudominolia climacota (Melvill, 1897) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Minolia climacota Melvill, 1897 | |
Pseudominolia climacota is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
The epithet "climacota" is derived from the Greek word for "terraced".
Description
The height of the shell attains 14 mm, its diameter also 14 mm. The solid shell has a gradated conical shape. It is subdepressed and narrowly umbilicate,. Its color is white-ochraceous or white-cinereous. The shell contains seven whorls with much impressed sutures. The whorls are irregularly spirally deeply lirate. The lirae are conspicuously sulculose with triangular blotches of black-brown painting. The smooth base is plane but triangular at the periphery. Below the periphery it is ornated with brown to ashy gray flames. The aperture is angulated round with a simple lip.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Iran.
References
- Bouchet, P. (2012). Pseudominolia climacota (Melvill, 1897). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=701817 on 2012-11-23
- Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
- Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society v.41 (1896-1897) (described as Minolia climacota)
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| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Pseudominolia climacota | |