Stomatella lintricula

Stomatella lintricula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[2]

Stomatella lintricula
Drawing of a shell of Stomatella lintricula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Stomatella
Species:	S. lintricula
Binomial name
Stomatella lintricula (A. Adams, 1850) [1]
Synonyms[2]
Gena lentricula A. Adams, 1850 (misspelling) Gena lintricula A. Adams, 1850 (original combination)

Description

The thin, fragile, oblong shell is shaped like a Haliotis. Its back is convex. It is all over very delicately striated. It is flesh-colored, spotted with red. The small spire is nearly terminal and laterally inclined. The open aperture is very much lengthened.^[3]

Schepman gives a somewhat divergent description: the posterior part of the shell is nearly entirely yellowish-white with a green tinge, moreover a few smaller patches of the same colour are dispersed over the anterior part, a few dark spiral lines are more conspicuous on the posterior part. The surface is covered with very fine, close-set spiral and by more remote concentric striae. The species may be easily recognized by its very elongate shape.^[4]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indo-Pacific (Indo-China, Indo-Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan) and off Queensland, Australia.