Conotalopia ornata

Conotalopia ornata is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[1]

Conotalopia ornata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Subfamily:	Umboniinae
Genus:	Conotalopia
Species:	C. ornata
Binomial name
Conotalopia ornata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903)
Synonyms[1]
Minolia ornata G. B. Sowerby III, 1903 (original combination) Solariella angulata Tokunaga, 1906 Trochus angulatus Tokunaga, 1906

Description

The size of the adult shell varies between 3 mm and 5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species on sandy bottoms occurs off Japan.