Lodderia coatsiana

Lodderia coatsiana
Original drawing with two views of a shell of Lodderia coatsiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:Trochoidea
Family:Skeneidae
Genus:Lodderia
Species: L. coatsiana
Binomial name
Lodderia coatsiana
(Melvill & Standen, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Liotella coatsiana (Melvill & Standen, 1912)
  • Cyclostrema coatsianum (Melvill & Standen, 1912)

Lodderia coatsiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Description

The height of the shell attains 2.25 mm. This is a small, solid, white shell with a deep umbilicus, elegantly sculptured. It contains 4 whorls, with two apical sleek, white whorls. The two others are aequicostate with smooth, thickened, subflexuous ribs. The penultimate whorl is very flat. The last whorl has four spiral keels, with a blunt keel below the sutures, two at the periphery. The aperture is round.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Magellanic Strait off Argentina at a depth of about 100 m.

References

  1. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2013). Lodderia coatsiana (Melvill & Standen, 1912). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532990 on 2013-09-01
  2. ↑ Melvill & Standen (1912), The Marine Mollusca of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition Part II. Being a supplementary catalogue. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. v.48 (1912)
  • Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.


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