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Aclis enilda
	Shell of Aclis Aclis enilda 001.jpg (specimen at the Natural History Museum, London)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Vanikoroidea
Family:	Eulimidae
Genus:	Aclis
Species:	A. enilda
Binomial name
	Aclis enilda; Melvill & Standen, 1901

Aclis enilda is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 2 mm.

(Original description) A peculiarly refined and exquisite shell with twelve whorls, including three apical smooth and vitreous whorls, the remaining nine being ventricose, much impressed at the sutures. These are uniformly closely spirally lirate, the lirae threaded and subpellucid. The aperture is rounded. The outer lip is thin and effuse. The columella is almost straight.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Oman and off the Philippines.

References

^ ^a ^b MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Aclis enilda Melvill & Standen, 1901. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=880425 on 2024-02-29
^ Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1901). The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Seas as evidenced mainly through the collections of Mr. F. W. Townsend, 1893-1900, with descriptions of new species. Part 1, Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Scaphopoda. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1901 (2): 327-460 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S. (2016). New marine mollusks from the central Philippines in the families Aclididae, Chilodontidae, Cuspidariidae, Nuculanidae, Nystiellidae, Seraphsidae and Vanikoridae. Visaya. 4(5): 83–103.