Jump to content

Dillwynella

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Uziel302 (talk | contribs) at 22:45, 21 November 2019 (.The->. The - Fix a typo in one click). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Dillwynella
Apertural view of a shell of Dillwynella modesta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Dillwynella
Dall, 1889
Type species
Teinostoma (Dillwynella) modesta Dall, 1889

Dillwynella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Description

The minute, depressed, porcellanous shell has a thin horny operculum. It consists of comparatively few whorls. The shell is imperforate, but with a depression bounded by a riblet in the umbilical rib outside of the columella. The few whorls have a thin fugacious epidermis. The outer lip is thin . The columella has no teeth, projections, or folds, passing smoothly into the anterior margin.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Dillwynella include:

References

  • Kunze T. (2011) Dillwynella voightae new species, a new skeneimorph gastropod (Turbinidae) from the western Atlantic and a new record of Dillwynella modesta (Dall, 1889). The Nautilus 125(1): 36-40.