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| Minolia casta | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Minolia casta (holotype) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Solariellidae |
| Genus: | Minolia |
| Species: | M. casta |
| Binomial name | |
| Minolia casta (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1874) | |
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Minolia casta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 7.5 mm, its diameter 9 mm.
(Original description) The shell is conoidal and glabrous. It is white, ornamented with brown, sometimes in distant broad flames and sometimes in minute, closely set reticulations. The base is white and, on its outer half only, is streaked or marbled with brown. The shell has five to six whorls, which are angular and spirally keeled, with four to five prominent keels.
The outer half of the base bears five distant, impressed spiral lines. Around, and extending into, the open and deep umbilicus there are about six spiral rows of close, oblique granules, of which the outermost row is the largest. [2]
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off India and Sri Lanka
References
[edit]- ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Minolia casta (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1874). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1821924 on 2026-06-17
- ↑ Nevill, G.; Nevill, H. (1874). "Descriptions of new marine Mollusca from the Indian Ocean". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 43 (2): 27. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
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- Rajagopal, A.S. & Mookherjee, H.P. (1978). Contributions to the molluscan fauna of India. Pt. I. Marine molluscs of the Coromandel Coast, Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar - Gastropoda: Archaeogastropoda. Records of the Zoological Survey of India. 12 : 1-48
- Subba Rao, N. V. (2003). Indian Seashells (Part 1) Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occassional Paper. 192: x + 416 pp., 96 pls.
- Dey, A. (2016). Catalogue of marine molluscs (Polyplacophora and Gastropoda). Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. pp. 1-687, pls 1-192.