Scissurella staminea

Scissurella staminea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Scissurellidae
Genus: Scissurella
Species: S. staminea
Binomial name
Scissurella staminea
(A. Adams, 1862)
Synonyms[1]
  • Anatomus stamineus A. Adams, 1862

Scissurella staminea is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit snails.[1][2]

Description

The shell grows to a height of 2 mm. The depressed shell has an ovate shape. The spire is plane. The umbilicus is moderate. The two whorls are nearly plane. They are broadly clathrate with thread-like elevated radiating lines, stronger below the carina, and concentric elevated striae. The umbilical region has elevated concentric lines. The aperture is rounded-ovate. The inner lip is receding.

This species is widely clathrate, with conspicuous thread-like radiating and concentric lines, the former of which assume on the spire a lamellar character. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Western Pacific Ocean.

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2013). Scissurella staminea (A. Adams, 1862). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=493089 on 2013-02-16
  2. ↑ Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729-1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7. (30 October 2012)
  3. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII (described as Anatomus stamineus)
External identifiers for Scissurella staminea
Encyclopedia of Life 4793696
WoRMS 493089
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