Cyclostrema exiguum

Cyclostrema exiguum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[2]

Cyclostrema exiguum
Drawing with two views of a shell of Cyclostrema exiguum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Genus: Cyclostrema
Species:
C. exiguum
Binomial name
Cyclostrema exiguum
Philippi, 1849 [1]
Synonyms

Cyclostrema exigua Philippi, 1849 (wrong gender)

Description

The diameter of the shell is 2.3 mm. The shell is rather widely umbilicated. It has a subdiscoidal shape with radiating riblets fimbriating four spiral cariniae.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, Réunion and in the Gulf of Aden.

References

  1. Philippi, Zeitsch f. Mal., 1849, p. 25
  2. Cyclostrema exiguum Philippi, 1849. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III (fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321–636, plates IV-VII pp.
  • "Cyclostrema exiguum". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


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