Mangelia posidonia
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| Mangelia posidonia | |
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| Original image of a shell of Mangelia posidonia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Mangelia |
| Species: | M. posidonia |
| Binomial name | |
| Mangelia posidonia J.C. Melvill, 1904 | |
Mangelia posidonia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 2 mm.
This is a solid white shell with a short fusiform shape. It contains 8 whorls of which 2½ smooth, vitreous whorls in the protoconch. The subsequent whorls are much impressed at the suture. They contain a few axial ribs, crossed spirally by angulate lirae (eight lirae in the body whorl). The narrow aperture is oblong. The outer lip is incrassate. The columella is simple.[1]
