Minolia


Minolia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.
A. Adams named the genus from Mino-Sima, the little island near Niphon. Minolia was in older textbooks regarded as a subgenus of Margarita Leach, 1819.

Description

The thin, delicate, smooth shell is depressed and widely umbilicated. The whorls are rounded or angulated. The spire is depressed. The sculpture is finely decussated. The aperture is circular. The outer lip and columella thin, simple, acute. The umbilicus is simple and contains no spiral, callous internal funicle or rib.

Distribution

These marine species belong to the Indian Ocean, the western and southwestern Pacific Ocean.

Species

Species within the genus Minolia include:
; Species mentioned in the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database:
;Species brought into synonymy: