Cirsonella carinata
| Cirsonella carinata | |
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| Original drawing of a shell of Cirsonella carinata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea (superfamily) |
| Family: | Skeneidae |
| Genus: | Cirsonella |
| Species: | C. carinata |
| Binomial name | |
| Cirsonella carinata (Hedley, 1903) | |
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Cirsonella carinata, common name the ridged false-top-shell, is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]
Description
The height of the shell attains 1.7 mm, its diameter 1.8 mm. The minute, smooth and glossy, cream-colored shell has a turbinate shape. The four whorls have an impressed suture. The body whorl is bluntly keeled at the periphery. There is a sculpture of dense spiral microscopic striae. The base of the shell is rounded. The umbilicus is narrow and deep, and it is surrounded by a callus funicle which expands anteriorly to join the simple lip in an angular lobe. The aperture is subcircular.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Australia, at depths between 73 m and 200 m.
References
- ↑ Marshall, B. (2013). Cirsonella carinata (Hedley, 1903). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=720338 on 2013-10-02
- ↑ Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898, pt. 6. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(1): 326-402 (described as Crossea carinata)
- Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp
- Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1-109