Nepotilla minuta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Nepotilla
Species:
N. minuta
Binomial name
Nepotilla minuta
(Tenison-Woods, 1877)
Synonyms[1]
  • Daphnella mimica fusca Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1897
  • Daphnella minuta (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
  • Drillia minuta Tenison-Woods, 1877
  • Eucyclotoma minuta Reeve, 1844
  • Zenepos minuta (Tenison-Woods, 1877)

Nepotilla minuta, common name the minute turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Daphnella minuta Verco, 1909 is a synonym of Nepotilla mimica (Sowerby III, 1896), according to Hedley (1922). [2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 6 mm.

(Original description) The minute shell is fusiform, turreted, elongate and thin. It is saturated with a reddish chestnut. It contains 6 convex whorls, including the protoconch. They are spirally many keeled and between the keels thickly and slenderly longitudinally lirate. The protoconch consists of two subinflated whorls which are spirally and equally striate. The aperture is shorter than the spire, elongately ovate. The outer lip is thin and sinuous. The inner lip is inconspicuous. [3]

Distribution

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

References

  1. ^ a b Nepotilla minuta (Tenison-Woods, 1877). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. ^ Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1877. On some new Tasmanian marine shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1876: 131-159 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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