Anachis menaletta
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| Anachis menaletta | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Columbellidae |
| Genus: | Anachis |
| Species: | A. menaletta |
| Binomial name | |
| Anachis menaletta (Duclos, 1846) | |
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Anachis menaletta is a species of sea snail in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[1]
(Described as Anachis gaskoini) The shell is small, rather solid, and subturreted. It is whitish, marked with narrow brownish spiral lines – five on the body whorl and two on the penultimate. It is adorned with brownish-purple spots between the posterior two on alternating ribs. The infrasutural area is white, featuring a scarcely brownish spiral line.
Comprising six normal whorls, these are somewhat rounded and separated by an impressed suture. The shell features about 13 radiating, rounded, not very prominent ribs, which become subobsolete towards the aperture. The interspaces are undulated. The surface is somewhat shiny, and is finely striulate around the base.
The aperture is subelongate and subquadrate. The outer lip is thickened and is 5-dentate internally, with a strong posterior tooth. The inner lip is scarcely projecting and is rugose above the columella. The siphonal canal is very short.[2]
