Biology:Skenea diaphana
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Short description: Species of gastropod
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Skeneidae |
Genus: | Skenea |
Species: | S. diaphana
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Binomial name | |
Skenea diaphana (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
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Skenea diaphana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]
Description
The size of the shell attains 2.5 mm. The thin shell is narrowly umbilicated. It has a depressed trochiform shape. It is translucent, white, smooth, and shining. The 3½ whorls are very convex with a deep suture. They are smooth, except twenty to twenty-five close spiral lines around the umbilical perforation.[2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Virginia, USA, to Brazil .
References
- ↑ Skenea diaphana (A. E. Verrill, 1884). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Cyclostrema diaphana)
- Verrill, A. E. 1884. Second catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep-sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 139–294
Wikidata ☰ Q3142360 entry
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