Skenea rugulosa

Skenea rugulosa
Drawing with two views of a shell of Skenea rugulosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:Trochoidea
Family:Skeneidae
Genus:Skenea
Species: S. rugulosa
Binomial name
Skenea rugulosa
(Sars, 1878)
Synonyms[1]

Cyclostrema rugulosa Sars, 1878

Skenea rugulosa is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 0.75 mm and 1.5 mm. The shell is narrowly umbilicated. It is pellucid, yellowish white. The short, obtuse spire is smooth, microscopically rugulose and spirally striate. It contains three convex whorls with the body whorl large. The suture is well-impressed.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in northern European waters off Iceland, the Faroes, southern Norway and in the Barents Sea.

References

  1. 1 2 Skenea rugulosa (Sars, 1878).  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 rugulosa)
  • Sars G. O., 1878: Bidrag til kundskaben om Norges arktiske fauna: 1. Mollusca regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske region forekommende bloddyr Christiania, A.W. Brøgger XV + 466 p., 34 pl
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
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