Scientific Name: Mammilla melanostoma (Gmelin, 1791)

Synonym: Polinices melanostomus (Currently unaccepted)

English Name: Blackmouth moon snail, sand snail
Local/Bangla Name: Kala pat shamuk (কালা প্যাট শামুক)
Blackmouth moon snail, sand snail - Kala pat shamuk (কালা প্যাট শামুক) - Mammilla melanostoma - Type: Sea_snails

Photo: ABR Lab

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mullusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Naticidae
Description:
Color brownish body surface-white, obscurely banded with flesh-brown; columella white; umbilicus and callus dark chocolate brown. Operculum corneous and dark reddish-brown. Smooth, thick, fusiform swollen, medium sized shell. Short spire with blunt apex; whorls oblique, rudely striated and impressed with very fine spiral striae. Aperture large, oblong, semilunar; outer lip slightly expanded from the body and rounded. Umbilicus is wide and deep.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
St. Martin’s and Sonadia Islands and in some sandy beaches in the Sundarbans
Environment:
Marine
References:

Habib KA, Kim CG, Oh J, Neogi AK, Lee YH (2017) Aquatic Biodiversity of Sundarbans Bangladesh. Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST). 394pp.

Antu DR, Islam TT, Ahmed MR, Ahmed S, Datta SK, Ahmed MS (2023) Diversity of Bivalves and Gastropods in Sonadia Island, Bangladesh. Bioresearch Communications-(BRC), 9(01), 1225-1236. https://doi.org/10.3329/brc.v9i1.63603

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