Anatoma concinna

Anatoma concinna
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Anatomidae
Genus: Anatoma
Species: A. concinna
Binomial name
Anatoma concinna
A. Adams, 1862
Synonyms
  • Anatoma obtusata (Golikov & Gulbin, 1978)
  • Anatomus concinnus A. Adams, 1862 (original combination)
  • Scissurella obtusata Golikov & Gulbin, 1978

Anatoma concinna is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Anatomidae.[1]

Description

The ovate shell is rather depressed. The small spire is scarcely elevated and narrowly, profoundly umbilicate. The 2½ convex whorls are decussated by elevated radiating and concentric striae. The oblique aperture is suborbicular. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

External links

External identifiers for Anatoma concinna
Encyclopedia of Life 17715999
WoRMS 493010
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