Cirsonella gaudryi

Cirsonella gaudryi
Original drawing with three views of a shell of Cirsonella gaudryi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Cirsonella
Species: C. gaudryi
Binomial name
Cirsonella gaudryi
(Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)
Synonyms[1]

Tharsis (?) gaudryi Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896

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

Description

The height of the shell attains 2.5 mm. The rather solid, shining, white shell has a turbinate shape. it has a narrow umbilicus. The spire consists of 3½ convex whorls, separated by a marked suture. The surface is smooth, except for the base which contains two or three very faint concentric striae. The circular aperture has a continuous peristome. The columella has a thick callus that connects to the convexity of the penultimate whorl. it covers for the greater part the umbilicus, that is reduced to a narrow, arched chink. The lip is simple.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores and the Rockall Bank, in the Northeast Atlantic

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