Skenea diaphana

Skenea diaphana
Drawing of a shell of Skenea diaphana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Skeneidae
Genus:	Skenea
Species:	S. diaphana
Binomial name
Skenea diaphana (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
Synonyms
Cyclostrema diaphanumA. E. Verrill, 1884 Ganesa diaphanaA. E. Verrill, 1884

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

Description

The size of the shell attains 2.5 mm. The thin shell is narrowly umbilicated. It has a depressed trochiform shape. It is translucent, white, smooth, and shining. The 3½ whorls are very convex with a deep suture. They are smooth, except twenty to twenty-five close spiral lines around the umbilical perforation. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Virginia, USA, to Brazil.

References

1. Skenea diaphana (A. E. Verrill, 1884) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 21 April 2010.
2. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Cyclostrema diaphana)

• Verrill, A. E. 1884. Second catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep-sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 139–294