Cyclostrema cingulatum

Cyclostrema cingulatum
Drawing of a shell of Cyclostrema cingulatum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Liotiidae
Genus:	Cyclostrema
Species:	C. cingulatum
Binomial name
Cyclostrema cingulatum (Philippi, 1852)
Synonyms
Delphinula cingulataPhilippi, 1852

Cyclostrema cingulatum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae. ^[1]

Description

The diameter of the shell is 1.5 mm. The shell is narrowly umbilicated, with radiating low, broadly rounded undulations above, scalloping the periphery. The shell is quadricarinate in the adults, bicarinate in the young, the carinae being more acuate, sinuately dentate, and dotted with brown. The aperture is subcircular in the adult. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar.

References

1. Cyclostrema cingulatum Philippi, 1853 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 22 April 2010.
2. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

• Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III (fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321–636, plates IV-VII pp.