Skenea diaphana

Skenea diaphana
Drawing of a shell of Skenea diaphana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Skenea
Species: S. diaphana
Binomial name
Skenea diaphana
(A. E. Verrill, 1884)
Synonyms
  • Cyclostrema diaphanum A. E. Verrill, 1884
  • Ganesa diaphana A. E. Verrill, 1884

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

Description

The size of the shell attains 2.5 mm. The thin shell is narrowly umbilicated. It has a depressed trochiform shape. It is translucent, white, smooth, and shining. The 3½ whorls are very convex with a deep suture. They are smooth, except twenty to twenty-five close spiral lines around the umbilical perforation.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Virginia, USA, to Brazil.

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