Barleeia sp.

Qi, Lu, Xu, Biyang, Kong, Lingfeng & Li, Qi, 2023, Checklist of the micromolluscs in the intertidal zone of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, China, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 105444-105444 : 105444

Barleeia sp.

Native status

Lives on algae in intertidal and sublittoral zones.

Distribution

China

Notes

Barleeia sp. very similar to Barleeia angustata (Pilsbry, 1901), but the aperture is open.

Diagnosis

Shell minute (1.2 ± 0.42 mm in width, 1.8 ± 0.13 mm in length), conic to ovate-conic, dark brown, smooth or with weak axial microsculptures and rather solid, periphery weak convex to angled (Fig. 6 ). Whorls 4, suture prominent and deep. Protoconch dome-shaped, smooth, with a diameter of about 300 μm, some sediment attached to it, with several pits on the surface. Apical angle around 45°. Aperture oval with a simple peristome, the posterior of outer lip in contact with the body whorls. Operculum, not a canal; inner lip attaching to the previous whorl, but not contacted with outer lip, not umbilicate and anterior canal; outer lip thin, anterior prosocline.

Figures

Figure 6. Barleeia sp.