Munditia gaudens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[1]
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| Original drawing with three views of a shell of Munditia gaudens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Liotiidae |
| Genus: | Munditia |
| Species: | M. gaudens
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| Binomial name | |
| Munditia gaudens | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cyclostrema gaudens Melvill & Standen, 1912 | |
Description
editThe height of the shell attains 1 mm. The small, white shell is deeply umbilicated. It has a depressed discoidal shape with a rather flat top. It contains 3½ whorls with a depressed apex. It is bluntly carinate at the periphery. The ribs are longitudinally closely lirate with about twenty two lirae. The region around the umbilicus is spirally carinate. The aperture is round. The peristome is thin. The operculum is multispiral with a central nucleus.
The species is lightly allied to Lodderia coatsiana (Melvill & Standen, 1912), but much differing in sculpture, especially in the suppression of the prominent peripheral keeling of the body whorl.[2]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the South Atlantic, in the Magellanic Strait off Argentina at depths between 100 m and 570 m.
References
edit- ^ Munditia gaudens (Melvill & Standen, 1912). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- ^ Melvill, J. C. and R. Standen. 1912. The marine Mollusca of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Part II. Being a supplementary catalogue. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 48: 333–366, 1 pl.