Cyclostrema dunkeri

Cyclostrema dunkeri is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Liotiidae.[2]

Cyclostrema dunkeri
Original drawing with two views of a shell of Cyclostrema dunkeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Genus: Cyclostrema
Species:
C. dunkeri
Binomial name
Cyclostrema dunkeri
Tryon, 1888[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Cyclostrema cingulatum Dunker, 1859 (invalid: secondary junior homonym of Cyclostrema cingulatum (Philippi, 1852); C. dunkeri is a replacement name)

Description

The diameter of the shell attains 2.5 mm. The depressed shell is widely umbilicated, with a spiral rib near the suture, another on the periphery, and a third circumscribing the umbilicus.[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References
  1. Tryon G.W. (1888) Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Vol. 10: Neritidae, Adeorbiidae, Cyclostrematidae, Liotiidae, pp. 1-160, pls. 1-36. Philadelphia, published by the author. (16 March 1888; continued by H.A. Pilsbry, pp. 161-290, indexed under Pilsbry). World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 2013-08-28.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2013). Cyclostrema dunkeri Tryon, 1888. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738015 on 2013-08-29


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