Gibbula capensis

Gibbula capensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[1]

Gibbula capensis
Drawing with two views of a shell of Gibbula capensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Gibbula
Species:	G. capensis
Binomial name
Gibbula capensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
Clanculus capensis (Gmelin, 1791) Trochus capensis Gmelin, 1791

Description

The size of the shell varies between 10 mm and 14 mm. The narrowly umbilicated shell has a conoid-depressed shape with 5 whorls. The first whorl is roseate, eroded, the following convex above, depressed beneath, whitish or rosy, flammulated with brownish-violet radiating maculations, obliquely striate and spirally lirate. The lirae are flat, narrow and not granose. The body whorl is dilated, subangulate above, depresso-carinated at the periphery, convex beneath and ornamented with 9 concentric reddish lirae. The aperture is oblique and subquadrate. The lip is simple. The columella is arcuate, denticulate at base, slightly calloused above, almost covering the umbilicus.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Western Cape, and Saldanha Bay to Cape Agulhas, Rep. South Africa