Sundaya
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| Sundaya | |
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| Shell of Sundaya soubzmaignei (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Suborder: | Ptenoglossa |
| Superfamily: | Triphoroidea |
| Family: | Cerithiopsidae |
| Genus: | Sundaya W. R. B. Oliver, 1915 |
| Type species | |
| Sundaya exquisita W. R. B. Oliver, 1915 | |
Sundaya is a genus of sea snails in the family Cerithiopsidae.[1]
(Original description) The shell is pupoid in shape, with an obtuse apex and gently convex sides. The protoconch is minute, consisting of a single whorl. The body whorl contracts anteriorly into a nearly straight siphonal canal and is ornamented with nodulose spiral ribs. [2]
