Skenea trochoides

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Skenea trochoides
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Drawing with two views of a shell of Skenea trochoides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Skenea
Species:
S. trochoides
Binomial name
Skenea trochoides
(Friele, 1876)
Synonyms [1]
  • Cyclostrema laevigatumFriele, 1874
  • Cyclostrema peterseniFriele 1877
  • Cyclostrema trochoidesFriele, 1874 (original combination)
  • Ganesa laevigata(Friele, 1876)
  • Moelleria laevigataFriele, 1876
  • Skenea laevigataJeffreys, 1876
  • Tharsiella trochoidesFriele, 1874

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

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G.W. Tryon thought this species was a synonym of Cyclostrema peterseniFrielle, 1877 (now a synonym of Skenea peterseni (Friele, 1877)) [2]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 2 mm and 3 mm. The white shell is perforate, somewhat solid. It is opaque, smooth, and shining. The base of the shell contains sometimes a few faint oblique, curved lines;. The four whorls are convex and have a deep suture. The columellar lip is vertical, forming a slight angle with the outer lip at their junction. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in Arctic waters and in the northern Atlantic Ocean off Greenland, the Faroes and Scandinavia at depths between 60 m and 160 m.

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