Cyclostrema eupoietum
Appearance
Cyclostrema eupoietum | |
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Original drawing of a shell of Cyclostrema eupoietum | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Liotiidae |
Genus: | Cyclostrema |
Species: | C. eupoietum
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Binomial name | |
Cyclostrema eupoietum Melvill, 1904
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Synonyms | |
Cyclostrema eupoletum Melvill, 1904 (misspelling) |
Cyclostrema eupoietum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[1][2]
Description
[edit](Original description by Melvill) The height of the shell attains 1.5 mm and its diameter 2 mm. This is a small, narrowly umbilicated shell with four whorls. The last two whorls are very closely spirally lirately furrowed. The penultimate whorls is puncto-striate. The crenelations round the half-covered umbilicus are large in proportion to the size of the shell. The aperture is round. The peristome is continuous, hardly thickened, a tongue-shaped process, lirato-sulcate as is the rest of the surface, extending over the umbilical region.[3]
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Persian Gulf.
References
[edit]- ^ Bouchet, P. (2012). Cyclostrema eupoletum Melvill, 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=701861 on 2012-12-03
- ^ Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
- ^ Melvill (1904) Descriptions of 28 species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v.6 (1904-1905)
- Trew, A., 1984. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Part 30. Trochacea. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales