Cyclostrema eupoietum

Cyclostrema eupoietum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[1][2]

Cyclostrema eupoietum
Original drawing of a shell of Cyclostrema eupoietum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Genus: Cyclostrema
Species:
C. eupoietum
Binomial name
Cyclostrema eupoietum
Melvill, 1904
Synonyms

Cyclostrema eupoletum Melvill, 1904 (misspelling)

Description

(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

This species occurs in the Persian Gulf.

References
  1. 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
  2. Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
  3. 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
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