Cyclostrema exiguum

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Cyclostrema exiguum
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Drawing with two views of a shell of Cyclostrema exiguum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Genus: Cyclostrema
Species:
C. exiguum
Binomial name
Cyclostrema exiguum
Philippi, 1849 [1]
Synonyms

Cyclostrema exiguaPhilippi, 1849 (wrong gender)

Cyclostrema exiguum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae. [2]

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Description

The diameter of the shell is 2.3 mm. The shell is rather widely umbilicated. It has a subdiscoidal shape with radiating riblets fimbriating four spiral cariniae.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, Réunion and in the Gulf of Aden.

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References

  1. Philippi, Zeitsch f. Mal., 1849, p. 25
  2. Cyclostrema exiguum Philippi, 1849 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 22 April 2010.