Lirularia canaliculata

Lirularia canaliculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae.^[1]

Lirularia canaliculata
Several views of a shell of Lirularia canaliculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Lirularia
Species:	L. canaliculata
Binomial name
Lirularia canaliculata (E.A. Smith, 1871)
Synonyms[1]
Minolia canaliculata E.A. Smith, 1871 Solariella canaliculata E.A. Smith, 1871

Description

The height of this small shell measures 3 mm. It is broadly umbilicated, pearly and beautifully prismatic. The spire is depressed-conical. It contains five whorls, the first two are smooth, the remainder spirally lirate, and ornamented beneath the channelled sutures with a series of white tubercles, here and there marked with brown. The body whorl is encircled by chestnut-dotted carinae. The base of the shell contains a purple-brown zone. The umbilicus is perspective, margined by a somewhat tubercular cord. The aperture is subcircular.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Equatorial Guinea and Angola.