Minolops cincta
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Solariellidae |
| Genus: | Minolops |
| Species: | M. cincta
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| Binomial name | |
| Minolops cincta (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938)
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Minolops cincta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.[1]
Morphological description
Minolops cincta is characterized by:
- Small, depressed-turbinate shell (5-7 mm diameter) with 4-5 whorls
- Distinctive spiral bands of reddish-brown on a pearly background[2]
- Umbilicate aperture with thin, complete peristome
- Smooth, iridescent nacre visible through the translucent shell
Description
The size of the shell attains 6 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off South Australia.
References
- ^ MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Minolops cincta (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1355572 on 10 September 2019
- ^ Rabeler, Richard K. (8 October 1993). "California Flora: The Jepson Manual. Higher Plants of California. James C. Hickman, Ed. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993. xviii, 1400 pp., illus. $65 or £50". Science. 262 (5131): 261–261. doi:10.1126/science.262.5131.261.a. ISSN 0036-8075.
- Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. (1938), New Species of South Australian Gastropoda; Records of the South Australian Museum v. 6 pp. 199–206, 1pl.