Lodderia novemcarinata

Lodderia novemcarinata
Original drawing of a shell of Lodderia novemcarinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Lodderia
Species: L. novemcarinata
Binomial name
Lodderia novemcarinata
(Melvill, 1906)
Synonyms
  • Circulus novemcarinatus (Melvill, 1906)
  • Cyclostrema novemcarinatum Melvill, 1906 (original description)

Lodderia novemcarinata is a minute, sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Description

The height of the shell attains 1.25 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm. The small white shell has a depressed suborbicular shape. It is deeply umbilicate. It contains 5 whorls, including two minute ones in the apex. It shows nine acute, spiral keels on the body whorl (of which the sutural and the inner umbilical keels are but weakly developed). The shell is minutely radiately, very closely striate, giving it a shagreened and silky appearance The growth lines in the interstices are apparent. The aperture is circular and white on the inside. The peristome is continuous.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Arabian Sea off Muscat, Oman, in the northwest Indian Ocean and in the Red Sea.

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