Gibbula albida

Gibbula albida, common name the whitish gibbula, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[2]

Gibbula albida
Shell of Gibbula albida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Gibbula
Species:	G. albida
Binomial name
Gibbula albida (Gmelin, 1790) [1]
Synonyms
Gibbula purpurea Coen, 1930 Gibbula thiara Coen, 1930 Trochocochlea castriotae Bellini, 1903 Trochus albidus Gmelin, 1790 (original combination) Trochus albidus var. pontica Milaschewitsch, 1908 Trochus biasoletti Philippi, 1836 Trochus bornii Cantraine 1835 Trochus cinerarius Linnaeus, 1758 Trochus clodianus Nardo, 1847 Trochus lyciacus Forbes, 1844 Trochus magulus Deshayes, 1835 Trochus quadratus Dillwyn, 1817

Description

The size of the shell varies between 10 mm and 24 mm. The solid, umbilicate or imperforate shell has a conical shape. it is whitish, painted with longitudinal stripes of red, brown or purple, the base striped, maculated or mottled. The acute spire contains 7 whorls. These are tumid below the sutures and sometimes obsoletely plicate there and spirally lirate. The body whorl is tumid at the periphery and convex beneath. The columella is slightly sinuous and prominent in the middle. The white umbilicus is funnel-shaped when open, frequently closed.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov