Prothalotia lehmanni

Prothalotia lehmanni, common name Lehmann's top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[2][3]

Prothalotia lehmanni
Drawing of a shell of Prothalotia lehmanni
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Subfamily:	Cantharidinae
Genus:	Prothalotia
Species:	P. lehmanni
Binomial name
Prothalotia lehmanni (Menke, 1843)[1]
Synonyms
Cantharidus lehmanni (Menke, 1843) Notogibbula sulcosa A. Adams, 1851 Phasianella elegans Lamarck, J.B. 1822 Trochus lehmanni Menke, 1843 (original combination) Trochus nitens Kiener, L.C. 1859

Description

The Prothalotia lehmanni shares the corneous operculum shell specific to the Trochidae family, and has the common nacreous interior. On the small side, Lehmann's top snail ranges from 10mm to 17mm in size.^[4]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia and Western Australia.