Skenea areolata

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Skenea areolata
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Drawing with three views of a shell of Skenea areolata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Skenea
Species:
S. areolata
Binomial name
Skenea areolata
(Sars, 1878)
Synonyms [1]

Cyclostrema areolataSars, 1878

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

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Description

The size of the shell attains 2 mm. The solid, semipellucid, white shell is widely, perspectively umbilicated. It is finely spirally lirate, crossed by close incremental stripe. The three whorls are convex, and moderately increasing in size. The aperture is orbicular. The peristome is thin. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Iceland and arctic Norway.

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