Skenea diaphana | |
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Drawing of a shell of Skenea diaphana | |
Scientific classification
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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]
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]
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Virginia, USA, to Brazil.
Skenea diaphana | |
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Drawing of a shell of Skenea diaphana | |
Scientific classification
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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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Synonyms | |
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Skenea diaphana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae. [1]
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]
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Virginia, USA, to Brazil.