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Leucorhynchia punctata

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Leucorhynchia punctata
Drawing with two views of a shell of Leucorhynchia punctata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Leucorhynchia
Species:
L. punctata
Binomial name
Leucorhynchia punctata
(Jousseaume, 1872)
Synonyms[1]
  • Teinostoma dalli Dautzenberg, 1912
  • Teinostoma punctatum Jousseaume, 1872

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

Description

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The shell has a diameter of 2.5 mm. The solid, yellowish white, subtranslucent shell has a depressed convex shape. It is more flattened below. The umbilicus is almost covered. The surface is covered by microscopic, close granular spiral striae, more apparent at the suture and around the umbilicus.[2]

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Angola,[1] São Tomé and Príncipe, Ghana and Guinea.[3]

References

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  • Jousseaume, F. (1872). Etude des genres Teinostoma, Cyclostrema et Skenea. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie. ser. 2, 23: 388–396.
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