Jujubinus montagui

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

Jujubinus montagui
Drawing with two views of a shell of Jujubinus montagui
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Jujubinus
Species:	J. montagui
Binomial name
Jujubinus montagui (Wood, 1828)
Synonyms[1]
Cantharidus montagui (W. Wood, 1828) Jujubinus montagui mediterraneus Ghisotti & Melone, 1975 Trochus abandus Chiereghini (misspelling) Trochus abanteus Nardo, 1847 Trochus cyrnaeus Réquien, 1848 (dubious synonym) Trochus montacuti Jeffreys, 1865 Trochus montagui Wood, 1828 (original description) Trochus parvulus Philippi, 1844 Trochus solidulus Monterosato, T.A. de M. di Trochus striatus Forbes, E. Trochus tumidulus Nardo, 1847

Description

The size of the shell varies between 3 mm and 9 mm. The imperforate or very minutely perforate shell has a conical. The 7 whorls are a little convex. The earlier buff, following pale buffish-ashen, is ornamented with obscure maculations or zones of chestnut. The shell is obliquely striate, spirally lirate with 6 subequal lirae on the penultimate whorl. The body whorl is a little convex above, carinated in the middle, convex beneath and provided with 7–8 concentric, white-and-brown articulated lirae. The aperture is rhomboid. The columella is subtruncate below.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the North Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean (from Scotland to Madeira) and in the Mediterranean Sea.