Lirularia redimita


Lirularia redimita is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Description

The height of the shell attains 3.7 mm, its diameter 4 mm. The depressed, orbicular shell is narrowly perforated. It is greenish-pearly and iridescent. The lirae are ornamented with black. The apex is white. The whorls are rather convex. They are encircled by 3 or 4 lirae or carinae. The white umbilicus is small. The large, pearly aperture is circular. The columella is white, somewhat reflexed above, joining the outer lip with a thin callus.
The green pearly surface with the black-dotted spiral keels make the shell of this species immediately recognizable.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.