Leucorhynchia lirata

Leucorhynchia lirata
Original drawing of a shell of Leucorhynchia lirata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Leucorhynchia
Species: L. lirata
Binomial name
Leucorhynchia lirata
(E.A. Smith, 1871)
Synonyms[1]
  • Ethalia lirata E.A. Smith, 1871
  • Leucorhynchia lyrata [sic]
  • Teinostoma circularis Talavera, 1975
  • Teinostoma liratum Tomlin & Shackleford, 1915

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

Description

The height of the shell attains 2 mm, its diameter 3 mm. The white, subimperforate shell is very small and has a globular shape. The spire contains 3½ finely lirate whorls. It is strongly plicate beneath the suture and around the umbilical callosity. The aperture is rounded. The peristome is continuous.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Senegal and Angola.

References

  1. 1 2 Leucorhynchia lirata (E.A. Smith, 1871).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  2. ↑ E.A. Smith, A list of species of shells from West Africa (pl. 59, fig. 40). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871, p.737, t. 75, f. 23
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