Leucorhynchia lirata | |
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Original drawing of a shell of Leucorhynchia lirata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Skeneidae |
Genus: | Leucorhynchia |
Species: | L. lirata |
Binomial name | |
Leucorhynchia lirata (E.A. Smith, 1871) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Leucorhynchia lirata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae. [1]
The height of the shell attains 2 mm, its diameter 3 mm. The white, subimperforate shell is very small and has a globular shape. The spire contains 3½ finely lirate whorls. It is strongly plicate beneath the suture and around the umbilical callosity. The aperture is rounded. The peristome is continuous. [2]
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Senegal and Angola.
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