Skenea diaphana

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Skenea diaphana
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Drawing of a shell of Skenea diaphana
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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]

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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.

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