Anatoma concinna

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Anatoma concinna
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Shell of Anatoma concinna (lectotype at the Natural History Museum, London)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Anatomidae
Genus: Anatoma
Species:
A. concinna
Binomial name
Anatoma concinna
A. Adams, 1862
Synonyms
  • Anatoma obtusata(Golikov & Gulbin, 1978)
  • Anatomus concinnusA. Adams, 1862 (original combination)
  • Scissurella obtusataGolikov & Gulbin, 1978

Anatoma concinna is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Anatomidae. [1]

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Description

(Original description in Latin) The shell is ovate and somewhat depressed. Its spire is small, scarcely elevated, and narrowly and deeply umbilicate. It has 2½ convex whorls, which are neatly decussated (crossed) with elevated radial and concentric striae. The aperture is oblique and sub-orbicular. [2]

The ovate shell is rather depressed. The small spire is scarcely elevated and narrowly, profoundly umbilicate. The 2½ convex whorls are decussated by elevated radiating and concentric striae. The oblique aperture is suborbicular. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

  1. WoRMS (2012). Anatoma concinna A. Adams, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=493010 on 2013-02-16
  2. Adams, A. (1862). "On some new species of Scissurellidae from the Seas of China and Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3 (10): 348. Retrieved 16 July 2025.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII