Seguenzia cervola

Seguenzia cervola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Seguenziidae
Subfamily: Seguenziinae
Genus: Seguenzia
Species: S. cervola
Binomial name
Seguenzia cervola
Dall, 1919

Seguenzia cervola is a species of extremely small deep water sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Seguenziidae.[1][2]

Description

(>Original description by W.H. Dall) The height of the shell attains 4.5 mm. The white shell is small and slightly depressed. It has one small, smooth nuclear whorl and five subsequent whorls. These are flattened a little in front of a distinct suture. They are separated by a somewhat convex smooth fasciole from a thread-like keel above the periphery. In front of this is a wide, smooth interval. On the base of the shell are about a dozen spiral threads with wider interspaces, and very faint microscopic spiral striae are visible in all the interspaces under a lens. On the upper whorls there is a small thread between the keel and the suture. Near the apex they become obsolete. At the aperture is a shallow sulcus between the keel and the suture and a smaller one at the middle of the base. There is a sharp notch below the end of the thin, arcuate projecting columella, behind which is a moderately large twisted umbilicus. The body shows no glaze. The base of the shell is conspicuously convex.[3]

Distribution

The type specimen of this marine species was found off the Coronado Islands, Baja California.

References

  1. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2013). Seguenzia cervola Dall, 1919. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492451 on 2013-06-10
  2. ↑ Abbott R. T. (1974). American Seashells. The marine mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. II edit. Van Nostrand, New York 663 p. + 24 pl:
  3. ↑ Dall (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean; Proceeding of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 56 (1920)
External identifiers for Seguenzia cervola
Encyclopedia of Life 482695
ITIS 72228
WoRMS 492451
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