Stomatia phymotis

Five views of a shell of Stomatia phymotis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Stomatia
Species:	S. phymotis
Binomial name
*Stomatia phymotis* (Hebling, 1779) ^[1]
Synonyms
Haliotis imperforata Gmelin, 1791 Stomatia australis A. Adams, 1850 Stomatia obscurata Lamarck, 1822 Stomatia (Miraconcha) obscura Sowerby, G.B. III, 1874 Stomax furonculus Montfort

Stomatia phymotis, common name the swollen stomatella, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[2]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 7 mm and 35 mm. The lengthened, solid shell is ear-shaped. It has a scalar spire. The body whorl descends very deeply. The shell is lusterless, red, marked at the suture, keel and base with olive or brown articulated with white. The surface is very rough, with a strong double nodulous keel at the middle of the whorl, several nodose spiral riblets and threads below it, strongly. The shell is plicate or puckered below the sutures. The aperture is irregular-oval and nacreous inside.

There is considerable variation in both form and color.^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, Central and East Indian Ocean, East India, Indo-Malaysia, Oceania, the Philippines, Japan, Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia) and Indonesia.^[4]

References

^ Helbling, G.S. 1779. Beiträge zur Kenntnis neuer seltener Konchylien. 102–125, pl. 2 in Abhandlungen einer Privatgesellschaft in Böhmen zur Aufnahme der Mathematik, der väterlandischen Geschichte, und der Naturgeschichte. Prag : Ignaz Edlen von Born Vol. 4
^ Stomatia phymotis (Hebling, 1779). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
^ H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
^ Dharma, Bunjamin (1988). Siput dan kerang Indonesia (Indonesian Shells) (in Indonesian and English). Vol. I. [A up to Olividae]. Jakarta: PT. Sarana Graha. pp. 111 pp. Retrieved 14 March 2017.

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Adams, A. 1850. An arrangement of Stomatellidae, including the characters of a new genus Cumingia, with some additional generic characters. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850(18): 29–40, pl. 8
Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1901. The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian Sea, as evidenced mainly through the collections of Mr. F.W. Townsend, 1893–1900; with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901(ii): 327–460 pls xxi–xxiv
Allan, J. 1935. Australian shells: ear shells and wide-mouthed shells. Australian Museum Magazine 5(9): 320–324, 5 figs
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Cernohorsky, W. O. (1974). "Type Specimens of Mollusca in the University Zoological Museum, Copenhagen". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 11: 143–192. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906212. Wikidata Q58676985.
Sharabati, D. 1984. Red Sea Shells. London : KPI Limited 128 pp.
Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1988. Seashells of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 207 pp.
Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
Moolenbeek, R.G. 1995. Gastropods (Gastropoda). pp. 24–186 in Dance, S.P. (ed). Seashells of Eastern Arabia. Dubai : Motivate Publishing.
Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp
Wilson, B. 2002. A Handbook to Australian Seashells on Seashores East to West and North to South. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp
Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands. Visaya Supplement 2: 1–228. page(s): 102

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Taxon identifiers

Taxon identifiers
Stomatia phymotis	Wikidata: Q7618730 Wikispecies: Stomatia phymotis AFD: Stomatia_phymotis BOLD: 152827 CoL: 6ZVDM EoL: 4797162 GBIF: 5723977 iNaturalist: 577974 IRMNG: 10540382 NCBI: 479610 OBIS: 216287 Open Tree of Life: 451249 Paleobiology Database: 62343 SeaLifeBase: 103405 WoRMS: 216287