Skenea diaphana

Skenea diaphana
Drawing of a shell of Skenea diaphana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:Trochoidea
Family:Skeneidae
Genus:Skenea
Species: S. diaphana
Binomial name
Skenea diaphana
(A. E. Verrill, 1884)
Synonyms
  • Cyclostrema diaphanum A. E. Verrill, 1884
  • Ganesa diaphana A. E. Verrill, 1884

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

  1. ↑ Skenea diaphana (A. E. Verrill, 1884).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  2. ↑ 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
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