Hemilienardia albostrigata
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| Hemilienardia albostrigata | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Hemilienardia albostrigata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Hemilienardia |
| Species: | H. albostrigata |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemilienardia albostrigata (Baird, 1873) | |
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Hemilienardia albostrigata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
The length of the shell varies between 3 mm and 8 mm.
The shell is whitish or light yellowish brown, marked on the back of the body whorl with a pure white chalky-looking band, and in some instances with an interrupted band of brown.[2]
This is a pure-white turreted little species, with a conspicuous dorsal squarrose brown spot just below the suture of the body whorl. The whorls are ventricose and ribbed longitudinally, crossed with a few conspicuous lirae. The outer lip is much thickened with large denticles on the inner surface, and the columella is toothed.[3]
It differs from Hemilienardia apiculata (Montrouzier in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1864) by the presence of a brown spot on the edge of the body whorl.[4]
