Seguenzia elegans

Seguenzia elegans
Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Seguenzia elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Seguenziidae
Genus: Seguenzia
Species: S. elegans
Binomial name
Seguenzia elegans
Jeffreys, 1885 [1]

Seguenzia elegans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Seguenziidae.[2]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 3 mm and 4.3 mm. The base is perforated or umbilicated. The fissure of the outer lip is close to the suture. The columella is produced below. The aperture is broadly truncately sinuous on the base.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Bay of Biscay, Madeira, Bermuda and Argentine.

References

  1. Jeffreys, J. G. 1876. Preliminary report of the biological results of a cruise in the H.M.S. 'Valorous' to Davis Strait in 1875. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 25: 177-230, pls. 2-4
  2. Seguenzia elegans Jeffreys, 1885.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  3. Tryon (1887), Manual of Conchology IX – Solariidae (by William B. Marshall), Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae

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