Leiopyrga cingulata

Leiopyrga cingulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Leiopyrga
Species: L. cingulata
Binomial name
Leiopyrga cingulata
(A. Adams, 1864)
Synonyms

Cantharidus cingulatus Hedley, 1913

Leiopyrga cingulata is a small species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Description

The narrowly perforate, thin shell has a pyramidal-turbinate shape. It is shining, purplish, the base whitish, with a series of rufous spots. The four whorls are marked with distant elevated cinguli (3 on the body whorl). The base of the shell is concentrically deeply lirate. The umbilical region is surrounded by an elevated ridge.

The whorls are encircled with three transverse ridges, and there is a conspicuous ridge around the region of the umbilicus.[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales and Queensland

References

  1. Marshall, B. (2014). Leiopyrga cingulata (A. Adams, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=719245 on 2014-07-07
  2. H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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