Ethalia bellardii

Ethalia bellardii is a species of sea snail with a top-shaped shell, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[1]

Ethalia bellardii
Drawing of a shell of Ethalia bellardii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Ethalia
Species:	E. bellardii
Binomial name
Ethalia bellardii (Issel, 1869)
Synonyms
Trochus bellardii Issel, 1869 (original combination) Monilea bellardii Issel, 1869

Description

The minute, thin shell has a height of only 2 mm. Its shape is orbicular-depressed, oblique, narrowly umbilicate, transversely minutely costulate. It has a pale rose-color, tessellated with purple. The spire is obtuse. The 4½ whorls are rapidly widening, slightly convex, and planulate at the sutures. They are separated by impressed sutures. The body whorl is large and rounded on the base. The aperture is dilated, ovate-trigonal. The peristome is simple and acute.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea off Suez.