Lodderia coatsiana
Appearance
Lodderia coatsiana | |
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Original drawing with two views of a shell of Lodderia coatsiana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Skeneidae |
Genus: | Lodderia |
Species: | L. coatsiana
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Binomial name | |
Lodderia coatsiana (Melvill & Standen, 1912)
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Lodderia coatsiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The height of the shell attains 2.25 mm. This is a small, solid, white shell with a deep umbilicus, elegantly sculptured. It contains 4 whorls, with two apical sleek, white whorls. The two others are aequicostate with smooth, thickened, subflexuous ribs. The penultimate whorl is very flat. The last whorl has four spiral keels, with a blunt keel below the sutures, two at the periphery. The aperture is round.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs in the Magellanic Strait off Argentina at a depth of about 100 m.
References
[edit]- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2013). Lodderia coatsiana (Melvill & Standen, 1912). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532990 on 1 September 2013
- ^ Melvill & Standen (1912), The Marine Mollusca of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition Part II. Being a supplementary catalogue. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. v.48 (1912)
- Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.