Skenea proxima

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Skenea proxima
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Drawing of a shell of Skenea proxima
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Skenea
Species:
S. proxima
Binomial name
Skenea proxima
(Tryon, 1888)
Synonyms
  • Cyclostrema affineA. E. Verrill, 1884
  • Cyclostrema proximumTryon, 1888
  • Cyclostrema (Tubiola) proximaTryon, 1888
  • Ganesa proximaTryon, 1888
  • Lissospira proximaTryon, 1888

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

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The name Cyclostrema proxima was introduced by G.W. Tryon as a replacement name for Cyclostrema affineVerrill, 1884 (now recognized as a synonym of Skenea basistriata (Jeffreys, 1877)), while he thought it was closely related to Cyclostrema basistriataBrugnone. Anders Warén thought it would probably prove a synonym of Skenea diaphana . [2] W.H. Dall thought it a synonym of Skenea trochoides .

Description

The size of the shell attains 2.2 mm. The shell is narrowly umbilicated, faintly striate, with a few indistinct spiral lines below the suture, and numerous well defined ones on the base. Around the umbilicus the inferior striae become stronger. The surface of the shell is smooth and greyish white. The suture is impressed. The whorls are very convex and rapidly increasing. The thin periphery is round and slightly in contact. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off New England and North Carolina, USA, at depths between 538 m and 1542 m.

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References

  1. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Skenea proxima (Tryon, 1888). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532304 on 2012-09-01
  2. ↑ Warén A., 1991: New and little known mollusca from Iceland and Scandinavia; Sarsia 76: 53-124
  3. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Cyclostrema proxima)
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