Architectonica laevigata

Architectonica laevigata
Shell of Architectonica laevigata (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	Architectonicidae
Genus:	Architectonica
Species:	A. laevigata
Binomial name
Architectonica laevigata (Lamarck, 1816)
Synonyms
Solarium laevigatum Lamarck, 1816

Architectonica laevigata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Architectonicidae, which are known as the staircase shells or sundials. ^[1]

Description

The diameter of the shell attains 30 mm.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species can be found in tropical and warm-temperate regions in the Central and Eastern Indian Ocean, in the Red Sea, off the Philippines; also off Queensland, Australia.

References

1. Architectonica laevigata(Lamarck, 1816). 9 November 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
2. Pati, Premalata, and R. C. Panigrahy. "On some mollusca collections from different beaches of south Odisha coast of India." Records of the Zoological Survey of India (2013): 229-254.

• Bieler, R. (1993). Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg. NF. 30: 1-376.
• Steyn, D. G. & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore shells of southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
• Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises. [Contribution to the study of the fauna of Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Fauna of the French colonies.]. Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Paris.

External links

• Lamarck, J. B. P. A. de M. de (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23. Paris: Vve Agasse.