Lorabela plicatula
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| Lorabela plicatula | |
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| Original image of a shell of Lorabela plicatula | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Lorabela |
| Species: | L. plicatula |
| Binomial name | |
| Lorabela plicatula (Thiele, 1912) | |
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Lorabela plicatula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 12 mm.[2]
(Original description in German) The shell attains a somewhat more significant size than Belalora striatula (Thiele, 1912). They are less angular and only quite indistinctly spirally grooved. The described shell is 5.7 mm high and 3 mm wide, and consists of 3 3/4 whorls, of which the first 1 1/2 are smooth and rounded, while the following whorls show a rounded shoulder edge and distinct, curved longitudinal folds. The body whorl is weakly arched (or slightly convex), and is faintly offset below towards the siphonal canal; the spiral grooves, even if only shallow, are nevertheless clearly discernible on the underside and at the beginning of the siphonal canal.[3]
