Hemilienardia calcicincta | |
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Original image of a shell of Hemilienardia calcicincta | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Raphitomidae |
Genus: | Hemilienardia |
Species: | H. calcicincta
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Binomial name | |
Hemilienardia calcicincta (Melvill & Standen, 1895)
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Synonyms | |
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Hemilienardia calcicincta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. [1]
The length of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 2.25 mm.
(Original description) The small shell is incrassate and rugose. It contains six whorls. It is a little bright white semi-opaque. This opacity being caused by a dead-white transverse band crossing the few, coarse, prominent ribs and becoming broader in the body whorl. The aperture is narrow. The outer lip, under a lens, is very beautiful, being minutely warted, and with four denticles, the columellar margin with four plaits. [2]
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Queensland