Cyclostrema prominulum
Cyclostrema prominulum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[1][2]
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| Original drawing with two views of a shell of Cyclostrema prominulum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Liotiidae |
| Genus: | Cyclostrema |
| Species: | C. prominulum |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyclostrema prominulum Melvill & Standen, 1903 | |
Description
The height of the shell attains 1 mm and its diameter 2 mm. It is a very minute, deeply umbilicate, white shell with a depressed discoidal shape. The shell contains four whorls. The two apical whorls are very small. The surface is uniformly multilirate. The lirae at the periphery are metamorphosed into a strong, very prominent and acute keel. The aperture is round. The outer lip is thin.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.
References
- Bouchet, P. (2012). Cyclostrema prominulum Melvill & Standen, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=701865 on 2012-12-03
- Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
- Melvill & Standen, 1903; Descriptions of 68 new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the North Arabian Sea; The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 7th series, v. 12 (1903)
- 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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