Solariella affinis

Short description: Species of gastropod

Solariella affinis

Drawing of a shell of Solariella affinis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Vetigastropoda
Order:  | Trochida
Superfamily:  | Trochoidea
Family:  | Solariellidae
Genus:  | Solariella
Species:  |

S. affinis

Binomial name
Solariella affinis

(Friele, 1877)

Synonyms

Trochus amabilis var. affinis Friele, 1877 (basionym)

Solariella affinis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Distribution
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Description

The whitish-pearly, thin shell is broadly umbilicated. It has a conoidal shape. The 5½ convex whorls are separated by a gradate suture. They are ornamented with oblique, dense regular radiating costellae, and two spiral lirae on the lower part. The body whorl is ventricose, radiately costellate above, with three acute elevated median spiral cinguli, beneath with obsolete concentric striae. The umbilicus is wide, carinated at the periphery, plicate, and denticulate. The aperture is subcircular.

This marine species is finely and closely reticulated ; the whorls are rounded and show no trace of angularity. The umbilicus is not encircled by a keel.[2]

## Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Bay of Biscay.

## References

1. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2013). Solariella affinis (Friele, 1877). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=740750 on 2013-12-03
2. ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

* Friele H., 1877: Preliminary report on the Mollusca from the Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition in 1876; Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 23: 1-10, 1 pl.
* Williams S.T., Smith L.M., Herbert D.G., Marshall B.A., Warén A., Kiel S., Dyal P., Linse K., Vilvens C. & Kano Y. (2013) Cenozoic climate change and diversification on the continental shelf and slope: evolution of gastropod diversity in the family Solariellidae (Trochoidea). Ecology and Evolution 3(4): 887–917

## External links

* To World Register of Marine Species

Wikidata ☰ Q3730470 entry

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