Leucorhynchia caledonica

Leucorhynchia caledonica
Shells of Leucorhynchia caledonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Leucorhynchia
Species: L. caledonica
Binomial name
Leucorhynchia caledonica
Crosse, 1867
Synonyms

Teinostoma (Leucorhynchia) caledonicum Crosse, 1867

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

Description

The diameter of the shell is 3 mm. The polished, shining, whitish shell has a subdiscoidal shape and is slightly convex above and below. The spire contains 3 flattened whorls that are rapidly increasing. The periphery is carinate. The simple peristome is continuous and is thickened at the base and produced into a tongue-like callus past the umbilicus, leaving a perforation between it and the columellar wall.[2]

Two views of a shell of Leucorhynchia caledonica

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Western Pacific Ocean, off the Philippines, Indo-Malaysia, New Caledonia and Queensland, Australia; in the Indian Ocean off Réunion.

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External identifiers for Leucorhynchia caledonica
WoRMS 577188
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