Skenea rugulosa

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

Cyclostrema rugulosaSars, 1878

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

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Description

The size of the shell varies between 0.75 mm and 1.5 mm. The shell is narrowly umbilicated. It is pellucid, yellowish white. The short, obtuse spire is smooth, microscopically rugulose and spirally striate. It contains three convex whorls with the body whorl large. The suture is well-impressed. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in northern European waters off Iceland, the Faroes, southern Norway and in the Barents Sea.

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