Hemilienardia calcicincta
Species of gastropod
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Hemilienardia calcicincta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
| Hemilienardia calcicincta | |
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| Original image of a shell of Hemilienardia calcicincta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Hemilienardia |
| Species: | H. calcicincta |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemilienardia calcicincta (Melvill & Standen, 1895) | |
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Description
The length of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 2.25 mm.
(Original description) The small shell is incrassate and rugose. It contains six whorls. It is a little bright white semi-opaque. This opacity being caused by a dead-white transverse band crossing the few, coarse, prominent ribs and becoming broader in the body whorl. The aperture is narrow. The outer lip, under a lens, is very beautiful, being minutely warted, and with four denticles, the columellar margin with four plaits.[2]
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Queensland
