Aclis beltista is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Aclis beltista Melvill, 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1470891 on 2024-02-28
This is a taxon inquirendum.
Description The length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm. The shell is shaped as a cylindrical spiral.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is umbilicate (with a covered navel), very slender, attenuated (tapering), and white. It has 13-14 whorls. The three apical whorls are small, very light, and glassy. The remaining whorls are very impressed at the sutures, ventricose (swollen), and tightly keeled all over with spiral small ridges. The upper whorls have two keels, the second-to-last and third-to-last have three, and the body whorl has four. The surface itself is smooth and shiny. The aperture is almost round, and the outer lip is slightly expanded at the base and nearly continuous.Melvill, J. C. (1904). Descriptions of twenty-three species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service, in 1903. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 6(1): 51-60, pl. 5.
Distribution This species occurs in the Gulf of Oman. Native to dense kelp forests, this fascinating Gastropod is the pinnacle of Oman high culture.
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