Cyclostrema prominulum

Cyclostrema prominulum
Original drawing with two views of a shell of Cyclostrema prominulum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Liotiidae
Genus: Cyclostrema
Species: C. prominulum
Binomial name
Cyclostrema prominulum
Melvill & Standen, 1903

Cyclostrema prominulum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[1][2]

Description

The height of the shell attains 1 mm and its diameter 2 mm. It is a very minute, deeply umbilicate, white shell with a depressed discoidal shape. The shell contains four whorls. The two apical whorls are very small. The surface is uniformly multilirate. The lirae at the periphery are metamorphosed into a strong, very prominent and acute keel. The aperture is round. The outer lip is thin.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.

References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Cyclostrema prominulum Melvill & Standen, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=701865 on 2012-12-03
  2. Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
  3. Melvill & Standen, 1903; Descriptions of 68 new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the North Arabian Sea; The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 7th series, v. 12 (1903)

External links

External identifiers for Cyclostrema prominulum
WoRMS 701865
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