Skenea proxima

Skenea proxima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Skenea proxima
Drawing of a shell of Skenea proxima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Skenea
Species:
S. proxima
Binomial name
Skenea proxima
(Tryon, 1888)
Synonyms
  • Cyclostrema affine A. E. Verrill, 1884
  • Cyclostrema proximum Tryon, 1888
  • Cyclostrema (Tubiola) proxima Tryon, 1888
  • Ganesa proxima Tryon, 1888
  • Lissospira proxima Tryon, 1888

The name Cyclostrema proxima was introduced by G.W. Tryon as a replacement name for Cyclostrema affine Verrill, 1884 (now recognized as a synonym of Skenea basistriata (Jeffreys, 1877)), while he thought it was closely related to Cyclostrema basistriata Brugnone. Anders Warén thought it would probably prove a synonym of Skenea diaphana.[2] W.H. Dall thought it a synonym of Skenea trochoides.

Description

The size of the shell attains 2.2 mm. The shell is narrowly umbilicated, faintly striate, with a few indistinct spiral lines below the suture, and numerous well defined ones on the base. Around the umbilicus the inferior striae become stronger. The surface of the shell is smooth and greyish white. The suture is impressed. The whorls are very convex and rapidly increasing. The thin periphery is round and slightly in contact.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off New England and North Carolina, USA, at depths between 538 m and 1542 m.

References
  1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Skenea proxima (Tryon, 1888). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532304 on 2012-09-01
  2. Warén A., 1991: New and little known mollusca from Iceland and Scandinavia; Sarsia 76: 53-124
  3. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Cyclostrema proxima)
  • Verrill, A. E. 1884. Second catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep-sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 139–294, pls. 28-32
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