“EULIMA CONVEXA.
(Pl, I., figs. 9, 9a.)
Shell small, elongate, pellucid white, exhibiting the red dried remains of the animal, smooth, glossy, rather blunt at the apex; whorls 8, a little convex, slowly and regularly increasing, narrowly marginate beneath the slightly oblique suture; aperture ovate, acuminate above; peristome whitish, the outer margin curved forward in the middle, somewhat sinuated above and at the base; columellar margin thickened, reflexed, joined above to the outer lip by a thin callosity.
Length, 5.75 millim.; diam. 2; aperture, 1.5 long, 1 broad.
Holes 9, 12. In 25-51 fathoms.
The whorls are more convex than in many of the known small species. E. amblia, Watson, from between Marion an.l. Prince Edward Islands, has longer and flatter whorls, a longer aperture, and is smaller.”
(Smith, 1907: 7-8)
Melanella convexa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of many species known to exist within the genus, Melanella. This species is mainly distributed throughout the seas and oceans south of the Antarctic Circle.[1][2][3]
The maximum recorded shell length is 5.75 mm.[4]
Minimum recorded depth is 250 m.[4] Maximum recorded depth is 765 m.[4]
Melanella convexa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of many species known to exist within the genus, Melanella. This species is mainly distributed throughout the seas and oceans south of the Antarctic Circle.
