Leucorhynchia caledonica

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Leucorhynchia caledonica
Leucorhynchia caledonica 001.jpg
Shells of Leucorhynchia caledonica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Leucorhynchia
Species:
L. caledonica
Binomial name
Leucorhynchia caledonica
Crosse, 1867
Synonyms

Teinostoma (Leucorhynchia) caledonicumCrosse, 1867

Contents

Leucorhynchia caledonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae. [1]

Description

The diameter of the shell is 3 mm. The polished, shining, whitish shell has a subdiscoidal shape and is slightly convex above and below. The spire contains 3 flattened whorls that are rapidly increasing. The periphery is carinate. The simple peristome is continuous and is thickened at the base and produced into a tongue-like callus past the umbilicus, leaving a perforation between it and the columellar wall. [2]

Two views of a shell of Leucorhynchia caledonica Leucorhynchia caledonica 002.jpg
Two views of a shell of Leucorhynchia caledonica

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Western Pacific Ocean, off the Philippines, Indo-Malaysia, New Caledonia and Queensland, Australia; in the Indian Ocean off Réunion.

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