Seguenzia eritima

Seguenzia eritima
Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Seguenzia eritima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Seguenziidae
Genus: Seguenzia
Species: S. eritima
Binomial name
Seguenzia eritima
A. E. Verrill, 1884 [1]

Seguenzia eritima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Seguenziidae.[2]

Description

The height of the shell attains 4.5 mm. The sculpture is more delicate. The carinae are less acute. The riblets finer and closer. The basal lines finer and more numerous than in Seguenzia nitida. It is also narrowly umbilicated.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Delaware, USA, at depths between 2359 m and 3718 m

References

  1. 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.
  2. Seguenzia eritima A. E. Verrill, 1884.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  3. Tryon (1887), Manual of Conchology IX – Solariidae (by William B. Marshall), Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae
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