Gymnobela chyta
species of mollusc
Gymnobela chyta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Description
The length of the shell attains 14 mm.
(Original description) The white, conical, ribbed shell has a high, subscalar, small-pointed apex, a short tumid body whorl, a rounded contracted base, and a small aperture. The longitudinal sculpture consists on the body whorl of 14 ridge-shaped, round-topped, curved, oblique ribs. They are not strong and originate in small rounded beads at an angulation below the sinus-area, and die out on the base. They are parted by shallow rounded furrows of double their breadth. On the first regular whorl they appear as simple beads 9 in number. On the next whorl they assume the form of straight riblets, whose obliquity increases on each successive whorl. The lines of growth, which are quite independent of the riblets, are very slight. The spiral sculpture consists of a row of quite separate, very small, elongated tubercles below the suture.
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