Pseudominolia climacota
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| Pseudominolia climacota | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Pseudominolia |
| Species: | P. climacota |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudominolia climacota (Melvill, 1897) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Minolia climacota Melvill, 1897 | |
Pseudominolia climacota is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1][2]
The epithet "climacota" is derived from the Greek word for "terraced".
The height of the shell attains 14 mm, its diameter also 14 mm. The solid shell has a gradated conical shape. It is subdepressed and narrowly umbilicate,. Its color is white-ochraceous or white-cinereous. The shell contains seven whorls with much impressed sutures. The whorls are irregularly spirally deeply lirate. The lirae are conspicuously sulculose with triangular blotches of black-brown painting. The smooth base is plane but triangular at the periphery. Below the periphery it is ornated with brown to ashy gray flames. The aperture is angulated round with a simple lip.[3]