{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Minolia peramabilis | image = Solariella peramabilis 001.jpg | image_caption = Drawing with two views of a shell of ''Minolia peramabilis'' | authority = Carpenter, 1864<ref>Carpenter, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. iii, p. 156 (1864).</ref> | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = *''Solariella peramabilis'' <small>Carpenter, 1864</small> *''Solariella rhyssa'' <small>Dall, 1919</small> | display_parents = 3 }}
'''''Minolia peramabilis''''', common name the '''lovely Pacific margarite''', is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.<ref name="WoRMS">Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Solariella peramabilis'' Carpenter, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=534185 on 2012-12-03</ref><ref>Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26</ref><ref>Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)</ref>
==Description== The height of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 8 mm. The very thinshell is very elegantly sculptured. It is livid, spotted with pale rufous-brown. The protoconch consists of 2 whorls, very tumid and smooth. The apex is mammillated. The teleoconch consists of 4 whorls. These are tabulated, with their sutures nearly rectangular. Upon the spire there are two or three carinae, and intercalated carinulae. The entire surface is most elegantly and densely radiately costate. The costae are very acute, subgranulose upon the carinae. The interstices on the first whorl are fenestrated, posteriorly decussated. The base of the shell is deeply rounded. The shell is sculptured with about 5 lirulae, anteriorly granulose. The umbilicus is large, closely ornamented with about 3 spiral distant lines, and radiating costulations continued from the base. The umbilicus is bounded by a granular keel, but has three other distant spiral lines crossing the lirulae. The rounded aperture is indentated by the carinae, scarcely in contact parietally, iridescent inside and nacreous. The operculum is very thin, multispiral, with about 10 elegantly rugulose whorls. The aperture is sculptured with delicate waved radiating lines.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/manualofconcholo111tryo Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia]</ref>
==Distribution== This marine species occurs off Alaska and western Canada
==References== {{Reflist}} * [https://archive.org/details/cu31924024565933 Carpenter P. (1872) ''The Mollusks of Western North America'', Smithsonian Institution, Washington]
==External links== * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/name/Solariella+peramabilis Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications)] * [http://www.eol.org/pages/405104 Encyclopedia of Life] * [http://collections.mnh.si.edu/search/iz/?qn=Solariella+peramabilis USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection] * [https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=69918 ITIS] * [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=534185 World Register of Marine Species] * [http://www.gastropods.com/1/Shell_8721.shtml Gastropods.com: ''Minolia peramabilis'']
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peramabilis Category:Gastropods described in 1864 Category:Taxa named by Philip Pearsall Carpenter