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Gibberula quadrifasciata (Marrat, 1873)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Marginellidae - Margin Shells »  genus Gibberula

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Gibberula quadrifasciata

Author: Rolan & Fernandes

Gibberula quadrifasciata

Author: Rolan & Fernandes

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Description

Shell ovoid, solid, with a low spire and about 3.0-3.4 mm. Aperture elongated, outer lip thickened, usually denticulate. Columella with several plaits almost similar in size. Shell translucent with four or five blown spiral bands.
Animal with a translucent white foot with milky-white blotches regularly disposed near the border. A variable number of orange spots, more marked in the anterior border are visible between and over the milky-white blotches. The tentacles are translucent white with an orange band close to the eyes.
The soft parts are clearly seen by transparency through the shell and have brown-greyish slightly fused blotches, antero-posteriorly elongated, The space between them is while.
Rolan, E. & Fernandes, F., 1997. The small marginelliform gastropods from Ghana (Neogastropoda Cysticidae)
Author: Jan Delsing

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Gibberula decorfasciata Rolán & Fernández, 1997

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